SC - Visit to Boston

[Olwen the Odd]

Being WAY new to this list, I would have to agree that there is a LOT of
traffic.  That is why I was wondering why there is no digest or web only version
available.  The digest sends out when there are about 25-30 messages, and you
get them as one message.  Just a thought.

Also being new to this list, but not to other lists, I did not know that if you
put private in the subject line, it only went to that person.

I may have taken it in the wrong way but I took it as an attack on Lady Bonne,
and myself, because don't you know EVERYONE knows.  And when one says everyone,
one is usually wrong.  Maybe, it would be more constructive if that little
tidbit is put into the greeting message that is sent when one is accepted onto
the list.

Just my .02 though.

Tym

david friedman wrote:

> At 11:39 PM -0500 2/4/01, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
> >Sorry, I neglected to add the word "SARCASM" to the subject line <g> .
> >See, I've been on this list a long time; there are probably five or six
> >people currently subscribed who've been around as long as I have, and
> >for that entire period of time, I've always been perplexed at the
> >bizarre tribal custom of sending private mail to a single person via a
> >listserv to which hundreds are subscribed, but either aren't supposed to
> >read, or are supposed to pretend it used no bandwidth, rather than
> >simply inserting the real e-mail addy of the person you're addressing,
> >so it really will have some pretense of privacy.
>
> I think Adamantius is being too subtle.
>
> This list has very high traffic--high enough to drive off of it a
> substantial number of people who are interested in the subject. A
> major reason it has such high traffic is that a lot of the posts
> consist of one person saying something to one other person--usually
> something of little or no interest to anyone else--and sending it to
> the entire list. If all the people who did that instead sent the
> message as email to the intended recipient, the total number of
> messages each of us has to wade through in order to find things of
> interest would be sharply reduced--roughly cut in half. That would
> make it much easier to read the list.
>
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> David/Cariadoc
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