Re: [Thinkpad] Re: Thinkpad list suboptimal

The list is fine just the way it is.
Postings are nearly instant. People can (generally) email privately. Peer
pressure gets rid of the bad apples (except me of course).
 And of course, it is moderated, at least in the sense that users can be
removed if they get too far afield (been there, done that).
The number of mails is really nothing, I get three times as many offers of
free dells and IBM's and Sony TV's every day.
----- Original Message -----
From: "elijah wright" <elw@stderr.org>
To: "Howard Price" <urodoc@charter.net>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 4:27 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Re: Thinkpad list suboptimal

>
>
> frankly i find your tone rude, confrontational, and a little bit juvenile.
>
> if you want to make suggestions, fine, but do it in a constructive manner.
> asking for things that take five minutes to implement and are "invisible"
> to other listmembers will get done, and will be heartily appreciated.
> big stuff (in terms of time, money, effort, major software changes) or
> things that are likely to effect the list experience for others will
> likely not.
>
> most of the list is likely to tell you to go straight to hades if you try
> to tell them that a bulletin board or a usenet newsgroup would be better.
> the membership of this list has been around for quite a long time, and
> generally has some notion of what works and doesn't *for them*.
>
> if you don't like things on the list, at least be specific about things
> that are easily fixed and inexpensive in terms of my time.
>
> cc'ing back to the list so that they can give additional feedback. I hope
> you don't mind.
>
> elijah
>
>
> > Please tell me if I'm missing something regarding the Thinkpad list, as
I
> > find the list almost unusable because:
> > 1) There's no search function.
> > 2) The postings aren't tree'd anyway
> > 3) There's really no daily summary; perhaps because of the volume,
there's
> > more than one a day. I switched to the individual email format, hoping
to
> > use the titles to make them more like a tree, but people seem to change
the
> > titles in their replies...
> >
> > I suppose the essence of this is that it's a mailing list rather than a
> > bulletin board. The list would certainly be more useful as a tree'd
bulletin
> > board, rather than receiving 100 emails a day essentially unconnected.
Would
> > it be better as a usenet group?
>
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