Tarzan
01-01-2003, 04:02 AM
From: [a member of the list]
I don't mind you reminding people to be neater about
editing their text. But if you're gonna scold
somebody personally it would be better to do it
off-list, IMHO.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
People(and Jason),
I agree with you totally, actually. It WAS a private post, but I failed to
check the "to" field, hence sent it to the list, rather than to Jason, as
intended. I was dismayed that it went to the list. My apologies to Jason.
On the subject of posts, here are a few comments from others:
...on "me too" replies...
[begin quote]
I don't mean to pick on you personally, but this is a perfect example of
something that has been annoying me recently. This list receives dozens of
messages each day, quite a few of which say little more than "thanks" or "me
too," and are otherwise devoid of semantic value. There's nothing inherently
wrong with this, but every time I get one, I have to open it up, read enough
of it to verify that there's nothing of interest to me, and then delete it.
This can be a real pain, especially when using a web-based client like
Hotmail over a dial-up connection, and it's the primary reason why I've quit
almost every mailing list I've ever been on.
Before you send something to the list, stop and think for a moment about
whether it's going to be of any interest to more than one of the hundreds of
people on the list. If not, take "live-food@yahoogroups.com (/group/asc2k/post?postID=XfhNcpy19NKZMkw5Alc8LyAkicVvTQNzuM54Xe ToKherv3B3JA092KzmpGQwWCNfHESRaC1jxcm2jU4HFc0BXLR6 Mg)" out of the
"To:" field and replace it with the e-mail address of the one person to whom
you want to send it.
That said, I'll just sit back and wait for the barrage of "me too" replies.
[end quote]
...on "correcting others posts"...
[begin quote]
Me, too. You know what else bugs me? Posts
that correct other posters posting habits
and contents. I wish I didn't have to take
the time to correct everyone on this, but
in my self-appointed role as list sh*tstirrer,
i felt honor-bound to do so.
[end quote]
...on "too long posts"...
[begin quote]
...you guys! I have a free e-mail address and my
inbox is rather limited so when I get a big bunch
of e-mails that are mostly old posts with only the
new pots on top, then it takes up sooo much space in
my inbox and I have to delete the whole thign, even if
it has some good information in it. Come on! Send in
new stuff only please!
[end quote]
I have belonged to many lists over the years and ALL of them have these--and
many more--problems. I stay on this list only for up-to-date information
related to David's site, but I do like to read perspicacious comments from
astute members of this list, but when such keeper comments include a long(or
short) old-text, dead post, then I must paste the good stuff and send it to
myself, which takes time, so I just delete the whole thing and lose a bit of
useful P.O.V.(Point of View).
I don't like being a pain in the arse for anybody and this is the last time
I will post at all on the subject of posting anything to the list. Yapping
about post-sheeit does not raise anybody's vibrations at all, especially
mine.
To those of you who consistently send in clean posts--thank you.
Seth
I don't mind you reminding people to be neater about
editing their text. But if you're gonna scold
somebody personally it would be better to do it
off-list, IMHO.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
People(and Jason),
I agree with you totally, actually. It WAS a private post, but I failed to
check the "to" field, hence sent it to the list, rather than to Jason, as
intended. I was dismayed that it went to the list. My apologies to Jason.
On the subject of posts, here are a few comments from others:
...on "me too" replies...
[begin quote]
I don't mean to pick on you personally, but this is a perfect example of
something that has been annoying me recently. This list receives dozens of
messages each day, quite a few of which say little more than "thanks" or "me
too," and are otherwise devoid of semantic value. There's nothing inherently
wrong with this, but every time I get one, I have to open it up, read enough
of it to verify that there's nothing of interest to me, and then delete it.
This can be a real pain, especially when using a web-based client like
Hotmail over a dial-up connection, and it's the primary reason why I've quit
almost every mailing list I've ever been on.
Before you send something to the list, stop and think for a moment about
whether it's going to be of any interest to more than one of the hundreds of
people on the list. If not, take "live-food@yahoogroups.com (/group/asc2k/post?postID=XfhNcpy19NKZMkw5Alc8LyAkicVvTQNzuM54Xe ToKherv3B3JA092KzmpGQwWCNfHESRaC1jxcm2jU4HFc0BXLR6 Mg)" out of the
"To:" field and replace it with the e-mail address of the one person to whom
you want to send it.
That said, I'll just sit back and wait for the barrage of "me too" replies.
[end quote]
...on "correcting others posts"...
[begin quote]
Me, too. You know what else bugs me? Posts
that correct other posters posting habits
and contents. I wish I didn't have to take
the time to correct everyone on this, but
in my self-appointed role as list sh*tstirrer,
i felt honor-bound to do so.
[end quote]
...on "too long posts"...
[begin quote]
...you guys! I have a free e-mail address and my
inbox is rather limited so when I get a big bunch
of e-mails that are mostly old posts with only the
new pots on top, then it takes up sooo much space in
my inbox and I have to delete the whole thign, even if
it has some good information in it. Come on! Send in
new stuff only please!
[end quote]
I have belonged to many lists over the years and ALL of them have these--and
many more--problems. I stay on this list only for up-to-date information
related to David's site, but I do like to read perspicacious comments from
astute members of this list, but when such keeper comments include a long(or
short) old-text, dead post, then I must paste the good stuff and send it to
myself, which takes time, so I just delete the whole thing and lose a bit of
useful P.O.V.(Point of View).
I don't like being a pain in the arse for anybody and this is the last time
I will post at all on the subject of posting anything to the list. Yapping
about post-sheeit does not raise anybody's vibrations at all, especially
mine.
To those of you who consistently send in clean posts--thank you.
Seth