[CAUT] Plea for accurate subject lines, was Re: caut archives?

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Alan writes:

<< Wouldn't it be nice if we could somehow really separate the conversations
into discrete wholes? What a resource that would be, and I'd have less need
for cognitive maalox (aka Alaskan Amber)! >>

        Oh, we have been over this before!  Our archives are bloated, and 
searching is much less efficient than it would be if the "conversational" posts 
were tossed.  There are a number of list members that treat the list as an 
email drop, and carry on totally off-topic, limited interest, meaningless to 
anyone else, worthless "me-too" conversations that have absolutely NO technical 
value. 
   It might be interesting to search by author,(is that possible?), and 
notice who's postings are relevant to pianos and whose are not.  Maybe if we could 
list how many posts were ascribed to what member, it would become evident 
where the chaff is. 
   Or maybe, there might be some way that members can be allowed to remove 
any of their own posts from the archives, and then we could all join in on a 
clean-up; ending up with a tight, concise, archive of piano technology!  ( I 
might be dreaming, here). 
Regards,    
Ed Foote RPT 
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html