Re: My replies to your questions.......Re: [Texascavers] administrative: Mailing list question for everyone
John, thank you for the input, it's greatly appreciated. This mailing list has a digest option, but I have never tried to use it. My suggestion if you want to try it, subscribe using a test account at first (gmail, yahoo, or 2nd email account, etc) and see how it works as a digest. If you want to try that, reply back with which account you want to try, and I'll set you up. Unfortunately, this is a manual option I have to set per user. As to the financial stuff, the monthly fees are null, however, to get Bill Bentley totally out from under texascavers.com as a domain, I purchased what he had into the domains, $70 worth. If the TSA and/or TCR want to refund some or all of that to me, I won't complain, but I wasn't going asking for it. I'm doing this to help out all cavers, because I love caving and want to help out where I can. As I put in one of my initial messages, I've added google ads to the webpage, any profits will be given out to TSA, TCMA, NSS, etc. If anyone ponies up money for the domain, profits will be given back for reimbursement for the domain charges. Hopefully all of that makes sense! Thanks again John Charles John P. Brooks wrote: Charles My vote would be IF you hit Reply ...it goes to the sender.and Reply ALL goes to the entire list. And I have one other suggestionis IF there is an option to receive the daily postings in a digest form...then I could see that option being something appealing. Now I don't want to step on anyones toes or tread on anyones turf. so please don't take these questions in that light. There has been some discussion amongst the TSA officers about how OR if the TSA should be supporting this mailing list from a financial stand point. And I would like to hear what YOU think. Do you want the TSA to fund this OR should it remain as it has worked in the pastwhich I believe is a hat is passed at the TSA convention and also at TCR to solicit donations. I asked Bill Bentley, And he said he thought it should continue to be a privately funded and run mailing listwhich is fine with me. But IF you want funding from the TSA; then we should discuss how that would work. I believe there is some consensus within the TSA Executive Committee that the TSA should be supporting the mailing list. But If it isn't broken---then lets not fix it. What are your thoughts ? Also, I want to thank you for stepping forward and taking this list on...this is an incredible service to Texas Cavers. The TSA and all cavers benefit from having this mailing list available. And the TSA will do whatever we need to do to make certain that you are supported in your efforts. Just let us know what you need. John Brooks TSA Chairman On 3/1/06 6:40 PM, Charles wokka Goldsmith wo...@justfamily.org wrote: I know I keep bugging everyone with non-caving related items, but just indulge me a bit more if you would please. A few people have mentioned that this list is setup a bit differently than the last host due to the reply button going to the list, instead of the person. I don't reply to enough on the list to have noticed it, but a few of you that do have. The question is, what is the consensus of the group? Most mailing lists have it setup as we do now, reply goes to the list, then reply all if you want to send to just a person and remove the mailing list info. I really don't want 300 people saying yeah or nay, however, I do want some pro's and con's to it. I do not want to go changing things up, I made a mistake when migrating it and don't want to just switch it mid stream, even just a few days later, without a notification or agreement that it's what the majority wants. Thanks for your time Charles - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
administrative: Mailing list question for everyone
I know I keep bugging everyone with non-caving related items, but just indulge me a bit more if you would please. A few people have mentioned that this list is setup a bit differently than the last host due to the reply button going to the list, instead of the person. I don't reply to enough on the list to have noticed it, but a few of you that do have. The question is, what is the consensus of the group? Most mailing lists have it setup as we do now, reply goes to the list, then reply all if you want to send to just a person and remove the mailing list info. I really don't want 300 people saying yeah or nay, however, I do want some pro's and con's to it. I do not want to go changing things up, I made a mistake when migrating it and don't want to just switch it mid stream, even just a few days later, without a notification or agreement that it's what the majority wants. Thanks for your time Charles
Re: [Texascavers] administrative: Mailing list question for everyone
I know everyone thinks this is a lot of work, but it's a hobby of mine (hosting sites, playing around with servers, etc) and so far, I have less than 2 hours invested into this list, so no worries about the work. And besides, switching the list will be changing a checkbox on the admin page. Several people have replied off-list and a few on-list. It seems most people don't care one way or other, and the rest seem to want the old way. I'm not going to switch it midstream (catch people off guard), so I'll switch it Friday morning (March 3rd) sometime in the morning. I want to give everyone a chance to get to this email and read it. Again, I welcome comments, questions, complaints, etc, so feel free to continue sending me feedback, either on list or off. Thanks! Charles germa...@aol.com wrote: Hi Charles You've already taken on a huge responsibility, and more work than you need, by keeping this site up and running. I would hope that TexasCavers email users can take the time to REPLY ALL and delete the list serve eddress if they want to respond to only the sender, thus eliminating more work for you. Grateful Recipient of Your Labor -Original Message- From: Charles wokka Goldsmith wo...@justfamily.org To: texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:40:55 -0600 Subject: [Texascavers] administrative: Mailing list question for everyone I know I keep bugging everyone with non-caving related items, but just indulge me a bit more if you would please. A few people have mentioned that this list is setup a bit differently than the last host due to the reply button going to the list, instead of the person. I don't reply to enough on the list to have noticed it, but a few of you that do have. The question is, what is the consensus of the group? Most mailing lists have it setup as we do now, reply goes to the list, then reply all if you want to send to just a person and remove the mailing list info. I really don't want 300 people saying yeah or nay, however, I do want some pro's and con's to it. I do not want to go changing things up, I made a mistake when migrating it and don't want to just switch it mid stream, even just a few days later, without a notification or agreement that it's what the majority wants. Thanks for your time Charles - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com mailto:texascavers-unsubscribe%40texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com mailto:texascavers-help%40texascavers.com
Re: [Texascavers] administrative: Mailing list question for everyone
I like it the way it works now, I reply to the list. Thanks! On Mar 1, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Charles wokka Goldsmith wrote: I know everyone thinks this is a lot of work, but it's a hobby of mine (hosting sites, playing around with servers, etc) and so far, I have less than 2 hours invested into this list, so no worries about the work. And besides, switching the list will be changing a checkbox on the admin page. Several people have replied off-list and a few on-list. It seems most people don't care one way or other, and the rest seem to want the old way. I'm not going to switch it midstream (catch people off guard), so I'll switch it Friday morning (March 3rd) sometime in the morning. I want to give everyone a chance to get to this email and read it. Again, I welcome comments, questions, complaints, etc, so feel free to continue sending me feedback, either on list or off. Thanks! Charles Don Arburn moom...@fnbnet.net 2009 15th International Congress of Speology Transportation Coordinator
