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EMAILNOTICES>noIn recent Maillings between myself and Grant, I said;>As the number of people visiting the site increase, it is very likelythat the Gossip Central will start flooding with a mass of messages. Thelisting options can certainly help cut it down for most users but as anoption, you might want to consider the useage of Forums (or 'Rooms' ifyou like) to assist catagorizing it further.Suggested rooms could be;Green RoomBack StageLimelightBio-boxso as to keep with the general Theatrical Theme. You could also requestthat certain topics be discussed within each room.G.R. - Actting, Auditions, Stage Craft, etc.B.S. - Set design, construction, etc.L.L. - Previews and Reviews.B.B. - Lighting and Sound.It's very unlikely that user would adhere Strictly to these guidelinesbut it would help catagorise discussions a bit.What's your thought on this?Grant then replied with;>heheyou're absolutely right. check out this address:http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/%7egmalcolm/ita/home.html(see 'Old ITA Web Page' below)did you ever see this early version of the website? you'll notice itfeatured sections for news, reviews, classifieds and gossip to try andthread the discussion a little.of course, at that stage there wasn't enough traffic to warrant theseparate lists and some languished almost entirely unused. so, when irevamped the site at the beginning of this year, i pulled them all intoone - Gossip Centrali love your suggestions! Could we combine the two tech areas? wedon't have a huge amount of discussion in this area. perhaps we could have"Green Room Gossip", "Billboard News" and "Technical Tattling"i can also individually adjust the lists for display on the home page.Unfortunately, setting them each to only display the last 10 or somessages is a pretty significant rewrite :(however, i could set Gossip to show only the last few days' messages,while Billboard and Tech items could stay up for a couple of weeksdepending on traffic.each message board can have its own mailing list, with people subscribedto the ita mailing list receiving news posted to all three boardsdo i feel another poll and update of the website coming on?So the question NOW is, what does everyone else think? I agree with you Grant on the merging of the technical options.Jeff Watkins