On Thu, 16 Nov 1995 01:12:55 -0500 ERIC W. PIERCE said:
>My, wasn't that little rant session special...?
Oh, goodie....a public flame, as well as a private one that I just
replied to. I GUARANTEE that this will be my last response, public or
private, to any flames on any of these topics. And I'll be polite.
Of course anyone who has been around the nets for longer than a couple
months knows that the post I'm replying to isn't even on "low heat". o-)
>I don't know if anyone else finds this annoying, but as a list owner of
>a fairly new list, I find I am getting between 100 and 150 messages daily,
>and as a student, I only have about an hour to sift through them each day...
Not my problem. As one of our late American presidents was fond of saying,
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." I have taught
a number of students on this campus how to run lists....and one of the things
I FIRST teach them is that they need to be prepared for lots of mail and
spending a significant amount of time on handling a list properly. If they
can't handle it, the list goes away....quickly. And those that can't
handle it, but are doing it as a project for a course, know that the prof
will know about it.
>"cyclops" may have felt he was doing a great service, but according to mt
>mail log, almost everything he said has already been said at least twice,
>and in most cases, three to four times.
Most of what I said hadn't been said repeatedly. What some are fussing about
is that my point of view on this issue is clearly in the minority. And that
is fine. I regularly remind folks on campus and elsewhere that the law
doesn't mean what THEY think it means, what they WANT it to mean, what
they wish it would be changed to....but it means what the laws and the courts
said. And an awful lot of the rhetoric tossed on here in the last three days
has been "wish it were illegal or immoral or fattening", but that doesn't
make it so.
>I feel that maybe "cyclops" should consider getting a little more x-edit
>knowledge or try using a PC and the notepad utility to compile his
>rantings into one long message so I can delete it with one keystroke. (rather
>than 10 or 15)
Oh, my....I'm sorry those 15 keystrokes took you a whole hour....must
be on a 300bps modem or something....you can go 14.4 now for under a hundred
bucks, something most students can afford these days. o-) Of course maybe
poor ol' snymor.edu can't afford modems that fast.
Also, there are some folks who would rather get the messages individually
instead of in "com-posts" so you can delete the ones from threads you don't
care about, and keep or read them from ones you do. I'm one of them. You're
not. Big deal.
p.s., in case you care, I get some of my listmail on GroupWise, some on
MailBook, and some on EudoraPro ([log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], and [log in to unmask], respectively in case you want
to be childish enough to mailbomb them all). This one works on Mailbook
since that is the place from which it is easiest to USE the knowledge
gained from lists about mail and listserv.
cheers, kiddo....and non illegitimi carborundum
cyclops, listowner, postmaster, and general "old fart"
Dan Lester, Network Information Coordinator
Albertsons Library, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho 83725 USA
[log in to unmask] http://cyclops.idbsu.edu/
How can one fool make another wise? Kansas, "No One Together," 1979
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