On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:40 AM, <w4...@aol.com> wrote: > I,ve tried digests, but there is still all that stuff to weed through. > When someone posts a comment and there are say 10 replies answering the > question, everybody has to stick their 2 cents in, many times under the old > message title. Sometimes, you miss valuable comments because they are totally > unrelated to the subject. If one doesn't want to miss something, they still > have to read everything. Worse than the Pied Piper!.
John, that's how email lists/reflectors work. They aren't set up for any specific individual. Everybody gets to take part, not just the ones who say things you or I specifically want to read. We get to decide what's more important to us - reading every post or the possibility of missing something. The extent to which we're allowed to control what others say is based solely on whether or not we run a list or subscribe/participate in it. If you moderate a list, you can stifle discussion and the list will eventually wither away. If you subscribe, you can read, delete, skip messages and so on. Time consuming, sure. But the benefits far outweigh occasionally having to sift through the chaff, in my opinion. Having been involved with this stuff since the mid 90s, I can suggest that perhaps you're subscribed to too many lists and should consider unsubscribing to a few. After all, your endless complaints here as well as on the boatanchors and Hallicrafters lists to 'end the conversation and move on' certainly clutter up my mailbox, the inboxes of all the other members, and have zero to do with what's being discussed. No offense, but it gets old. We all get the same posts as you, yet most others seem pretty adept at dealing with it. If you're simply looking for content, Don's suggestion is a good one. If you're afraid you'll miss something as you say, you'll just have to continue sifting through it like the rest of us. (o: ~ Todd, KA1KAQ/4 ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
