[Talk-us] San Francisco / Bay area projects

[Randy]

SteveC wrote:

>agreed
>
>multiple empty lists are sub-optimal, and what we saw in Europe was that 
>local events, published on a national scale encouraged people to travel 
>long distances to them, and prodded competition to start other events 
>where people couldn't make it.
>
>Yours &c.
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:03 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 03:55 -0500, Dale Puch wrote:
>>>I think the idea was that there wasn't that much traffic that it would
>>>bother the talk-us group, and what was there the rest of us could
>>>possible benefit from.
>>
>>Yeah, that's what I took from it too.
>>
>>It will be a wonderful day when we have so much activity on this list
>>that there's a desperate need to break it up somehow.  As talk-us list
>>dictator, I hereby declare that any local discussions about anywhere in
>>the country are more than welcome here. :)
>>
>>-- Dave
>>
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This may very well already be the defacto standard, but if not, might I 
suggest that we establish a best practice of prefixing subjects which are 
regionally directed with a 2-4 character region prefix followed by a colon?

NY: has already been used.
other states also would be by postal code abbreviation


If you need a broader or narrower region, such as New England (NwEn?) or 
SF/Bay area (SFB?), etc. then as long as you don't step on a state, if you 
get there first, it's yours.

This would allow those who are interested in a particular region to be 
"pricked" by the prefix, and would also make it easy to search the list 
for regionally specific entries.

Anything without a prefix would be of general US interest.

-- 
Randy