OpenEuphoria

Re: Mailing list

• Posted by Frank Atry <suprsngr at EARTHLINK.NET> Jun 01, 1998
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Hi Wallace:
I just joined the LISTSERV, and what you say makes sense.  I'm with you on this.

Frank

Wallace B. Riley wrote:

> 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