Don't the think tank archives act as an informal forum already?

Can subscribers set their email preferences to no mail and read/respond via the archives only?

Also, if folks are having trouble keeping up with mail, but still prefer mail to forums, I would suggest 2 things.

First - set up a folder in your web mail account or mail browser for the think tank mails (to stop them cluttering up your inbox) and create a filer to channel all mail with [TheThinkTank] in the subject to that folder.

Secondly - change your web mail or web browser view options/prefs so that it threads emails by topic. Instead of 20 emails on one topic cluttering up your email, you have the first email on a particular subject, with a drop down arrow (in mozilla thunderbird) to display all the subsequent messages on the same topic.

Results - email freedom.

Simon

Chris Dougherty wrote:

What about moving to a web forum? That may be a better way to catalog information. Just a thought.

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On 10/15/07, Jonathan Morrison <jonathan@slcbikecollective.org> wrote:
If the email traffic is getting a little too much for you on this list, you can go to 'daily digest' mode. Which will only send you one email per day containing all the emails of that day.

To do so, the easiest way (fewest steps) is to unsubscribe and the re-subscribe using this form:
http://lists.bikecollectives.org/listinfo.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org

When you re-subscribe make sure you say "Yes" to "Would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?"

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