It gives list managing a bad name when we are elitist about members' mail
clients. Yes, Outlook and Outlook Express (which were developed separately
and joined later by the name, hence their differences) are malware to avoid
if you can, but many ordinary users don't easily have that choice, and a
good list administrator focuses on the topic rather than on petty
geekmanship. (Just don't forget to demime inbound.)
Most lists today are topic focused, as in the past. There is a paradox:
for any given member - including us as members rather than admins - the
tendency seems to be to drift over the years towards one or several "lists
of residence" where general conversation takes place. But that doesn't
mean that the overall profile of lists is changing, it's just our
individual paths. While we divagate in "ChatNook2" or whatever, people are
starting lists on Evinrude maintenance and Harry Potter trivia and house
concerts and wireless router programming etc -- which we naturally have
nothing to do with unless our topic interests match.
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