Why GRASSP?

[Greg Colello]

How many people out there subscribe to GRASSP but do not subscribe to  
GRASSU. How many people only subscribe to just one of them? If not  
very many, I suggest the elimination of GRASSP. I'm getting tired of  
receiving two copies of the same email (one to GRASSP and one to  
GRASSU). I have to compare the two messages to see if indeed they are  
the same (as their identical title and authorship implies). Besides  
GRASSP has a very low volume. Having only one hopper, would allow the  
receiver to decide whether their interested in a certain type of  
question not the sender.

I understand the concept of the division, but in practice it doesn't  
seem to be working the way it was conceived. People are sending  
programmer questions to GRASSU and user questions to GRASSP. That's  
probably partly because it's so hard to tell what is the dividing  
line between a programmer question and a user question.

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Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello at biosphere.stanford.edu