-----Original Message----- From: Brian Barker [mailto:b.m.bar...@btinternet.com] Sent: 29 January 2009 17:34 To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] [Deleting useful messages]
At 14:23 29/01/2009 -0000, Witstert Noname wrote: >For example, in my latest download of emails (headers only) there >were several emails for each subject ... There are 2500 people on this list. It would hardly be surprising if several people responded to a message on a particular subject - or even to earlier replies to it. These could all be independent replies; indeed, if they arrive at similar times, they are likely to be so. You will see their contents only if you read them all. Excellent reasons for setting up a proper website-based forum >... so before downloading the content I deleted what I hope is the >excess being earlier timed (received) emails with the same subject headers. You have assumed that earlier responses are less valuable than those from people who were less prompt in replying. I see no reason to believe that this would be the case. Indeed, the opposite might be true. Not correct. I am hoping that the earlier timed responses will be reflected on the latest response. I think every response is important although it may not be correct. Therefore, if a website-based forum existed it would list the responses chronologically and as one continuous thread. Just sucking a forum out of the internet thumb have a look at this example: http://www.srainternational.org/sra03/forums/forums.cfm?conferenceid=43C391E C-1617-212B-DFA11B60780B61BD Wikipedia's definition of a forum can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum >In doing so there is a danger that I have lost some interesting information. Of course there is. So read the messages. If you need the information that is interesting to you filtered out from the rest, this can be arranged. But not by a mailing list: what you need is a secretary. BTW, Brian thanks for your response to my earlier plea for help. And, lastly, a note to Gene Young, I have been using computers for 29 years, email 15 years and OpenOffice since as early as version 1.4. I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
