[Steppes] Mailing list status

[Giles Guthrie]

What he said. Personally, it makes no difference to me as I learned long ago 
to review who the email is being sent to. My sister ended up marrying my 
arch nemesis as a result of my not paying attention to the recepients of a 
mass email. (he saw her address in the giant cluster of addresses often left 
when a message is forwaded, but that is a cat with a very long tail and best 
left for another time.)

I find that as far as the clutter of frivolous or irrelavent messages, using 
Google's Gmail service for all my list traffic helps immensely. All like 
subjects are grouped as conversations, so the wading through the list is 
much easier. I can handle one thread at a time, and when a thread veers off 
course or degenerates (or originates) as "My new name is_____ " or "OMG! I 
am the ____ Fairy of _____ LOLZ!!!1!!1!", I can delete all of those messages 
at once. While ideally the silliness would be kept off of the lists to begin 
with, it is much easier to deal with when it can be gotten rid of with a 
single click. If anyone wants to try gmail, email myself or anyone else on 
list with a gmail address (OFF LIST), as we all have a bajillion+1 gmail 
invitations to hand out (it is still an invitation only service.)

My two copper's worth, 

Giles

On 4/14/05, Corwin mag Eoin <corwinmageoin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I can appreciate both sides of the discussion. It is just as easy to 
> "verify the addy" to be certain that it is not accidentally cross posted to 
> an inappropriate list as it is to have to make sure that it is not going to 
> the last person posting.
> 
> However it does seem that to use standards that work universally would be 
> a good idea. In the technical world writers and editors respect the 
> standards that exist and while they may see the need (or have a desire to) 
> change these standards, it is almost universally accepted that these changes 
> should be approached on a "global" level.
> 
> It is my opinion that we should leave those changes to the v. scribes and 
> said v.scribes should work together to implement changes so that the 
> greatest benefit is served.
> 
> Corwin
> 
> Long term lurker, occasional poster.
> 
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