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Hello everybody -
Somebody recently raised a question about a separate mailing list in
addition to or in place of the regular Euphoria listserv. He generally got
dumped on for making this suggestion.
I don't want to get dumped on, but I'd like to remark that sometimes
dividing up a list makes sense. I don't think the Euphoria listserv has
reached that point yet, but it will, sooner or later.
This past winter I subscribed to another listserv, dedicated to WordPerfect.
It was interesting and informative, but I eventually cancelled my
subscription, because of two factors:
1. Most of the messages pertained to newer versions of WordPerfect than
the one I am using. I might find those newer versions useful in one way or
another, but my old version does pretty much what I want it to, and my bank
account won't stand adding new stuff unless it is badly needed.
2. Every day I would check for e-mail, and I would find 60, 80, 100 or
more messages. Just going through them would take two or three hours,
saving the ones with information useful to me and dumping the others. I'd
rather spend my time on the computer doing something more fruitful than
winnowing the mail.
In that particular case, a separate listserv or alternative list for various
versions of WP, various applications, or various something else, would have
saved me a lot of time. I complained about it on-line a couple of times,
and received answers like "Oh, just do this, or do that" utilizing features
that are not available to me. Perhaps they are "ordinary" on later
versions, but I couldn't find them on my machine.
I don't view this as being "rude" to anybody, or deprecating anybody's
efforts on the listserv. I just want to use my computer for the things I
bought it for. Going through tons of mail that contains no information
useful to me isn't one of those things.
Please, no hard feelings.
Wally Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
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