Dear list members, I came across AI Mailing list accidentally while surfing internet almost 5-6 years ago. I had joined the list with hesitation as I was not aware about the quality and quantity of mail messages being generated from the list. However I never regretted my decision and am very satisfied with the mailing list. I have learnt a lot of things based on experience and advices of many other members. Reading response from other members have forced me to look at many aspect of our life in a different manner. I had developed some of my survival techniques in an isolated manner but many threads like socialising in social gathering, tips for taking food at parties etc have provided me with the ideas being used by other VI persons. In fact I would like to suggest that if another mailing list catering to lifestyle related issues can be started. Apart from AI mailing list I had joined a couple of other mailing lists pertaining to subjects like mobile phones, JAWS etc. On date I have stopped my subscription of most of other mailing lists and currently subscribed to AI and Mobile AI mailing lists. Like all mailing lists which are catering to people with diverse demographics, AI mailing list too often witnesses a mood swing. But thanks to the vigilant moderator, he regulates the traffic of list by steering or closing various threads so that the large interest of the list is conserved. Considering the importance of mobile phones in individual's life, recent move of creation of Mobile AI mailing list was a good step to segregate and control mail traffic. I would say that I am not a very active member of the list but try to contribute to the mailing list after carefully checking the response of various other members and avoiding the duplicate entries. I also refrain myself from writing mails which I consider will not help in improving the knowledge base of other members (with an exception to current mail). I hope list members would agree that off late the quality of emails reaching the list too have improved. I remember a couple of years back there were many mails with a response like : I don't know the answer of this query" etc. Now-a-days we rarely find such useless replies. List members too have started refraining themselves from making personal comments, responding to various piracy related emails etc. I remember some years back, a single email requesting for pirated software used to generate 10 - 20 emails, with remarks like "now you will have a stick from moderator" or "go and study the list rules" etc. I used to wonder that so much traffic was not generated when somebody asked what is the meaning of JAWS or NVDA or what is Talk Software etc when compared to criticism mails. I am happy that people have graduated to next higher level and started showing maturity. In my opinion putting restriction on membership shall be a highly unreasonable requirement and should be avoided. In case the size of our mailing list has swelled to alarming level and needs some trimming then may be options like re-validation of email addresses can be undertaken. List members can be requested to click a link and re-enter the email address. I hope by undertaking such action and allowing this activity to be open for around one month, most of the active email addresses shall be validated. Also an appeal can be made to list members to avoid duplicate email id entries in the same mailing list and voluntarily remove mail addresses which they are not monitoring on regular basis. Sorry for writing a long email message.
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