Whoa guys

This is a real, unedited, honest-to-Pete e-mail from one my crazed "fans" (aka members) at work. These are actual things he's talking about (which is how I figured out this wasn't spam), and I feel it's only fair to give you some guideposts:

- Hub- our new password protected, member-only website that replaced In The News etc.
-Conductor mailing list discussion group- the listserv that I moderate for conductors

Ok- beyond that, if you have a decoder ring handy that might help, because I sure don't know what he's talking about. Enjoy!

E-mail from a lovely League member who shall remain nameless:

After successfully consolidating daily IN THE NEWS & weekly FROM THE FIELD eMails (assault? into The HUB (although I don't understand the reason/rationale - or need - for its Login: 00102915 / Password: 6z4S2b5z - apparently identical for all receivers? - it would be high time to do some similar tightening up & straightening out for the UNholy mess of the Conductor mailing list discussion group.
Click reply only if you want to reply to everyone on this discussion group `warning' is disregarded - or unnoticed - by all, so we are ALL inundated 1) w/ the Q, 2) individual replies, 3) Collected Responses & THEN more Collected Responses. If we are lucky, the Collected & More Collected occasionally carry collected - or more - responses to unrelated queries - as it happened more than once!...
At one point there was a glimmer of hope when the collected (w/o `more'!) came as - methink - a Word file that one could keep if interested in the subject, but THAT was once (or twice?) upon a time occurrence... And my previous complaint cum constructive suggestions(! went unheeded, of course...
So, here they go again, as the Great Communicator would to say:
Revamp the structure of the query to have the reply go ONLY to the original questioner + the Discussion Group mailing master (= League!
When a given subject has been beaten to death (3 days / 1 week after the last reply? send the Collected Responses along w/ the original Q to the whole group - hopefully w/o subject mix-ups & such. At which point one could delete the original Q (if saved) & keep the responses if interested in the subject - or when the responses themselves are interesting / enlightenning, as quite often happens.
Another important point: uniform coding of Q & (collected - NO individual replies, puleeeeeze!) responses, e.g.
[Conductor] Q - in which Q is given in a succinct code-word used ag'in for responses (followed by word Responses or just R, if desired, so that one could immediately place the 2 together, eliminate the Q (repeated w/ Responses! & keep the latter if interested.
If occasionally a struggler comes w/ a verrrry late response - after the collected have already been sent out - it could be added to the original responses & sent out after a reasonable waiting period to minimize - or, hopefully, eliminate - duplications. Such johnny-come-lately responses should also have a uniform identifier (ADDENDUM - or abbreviated: AD - added @ the end of the original Responses, so that one can eliminate former, keep latter (if interested), avoiding cutting/pasting or having to ask `will the more complete responses plz stand up'...
PS: the premise of this brief (but not short! has been broached to President Rosen along w/ compliments for initially mentioned consolidation of NEWS/FIELD into HUB, after his appearance @ the Cdrs Gld conf last Jan, which is why he is honored(?/ bothered(?/ annoyed(? w/ a copy of this missive!
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