Great sounding solution, yeah I don't read most either. Hell, is it just me or are people less likely to respond to a personal email these days? I have both sent them off with no reply and been guilty of not replying in a timely manner and possibly forgetting to do so myself a few times.
There are also no doubt going to be personal emails I never see for one reason or another. This seems very useful. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, William Beaty <bi...@eskimo.com> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:29 AM, William Beaty wrote: > > > > > > There's a 100% replicable CF experiment. People on other lists are > > > trying it out. > > > > What lists? > > Tap-L, Phys-L physics lists. He only attracted a few takers. He's > sending out fresh CR39 and Oriani's nickel wire. > > > > Nobody on vortex is interested. (Really? Or was it just lost in > > > the noise?) > > > > Yes, I saw it. If I were to work in the electrolysis regime, I would > > So maybe the lack of Vortex response to that message *isn't* caused by > thread overload. I know it would have been in my own case. If someone > here does some interesting work in their own lab, I'll often miss it, > since I don't read all threads. Having each of us trying to add a prefix > might work for awhile, but I know it's something I'd eventually forget, > then stop using it. > > Needs a software solution. Instead of prefixes: > > - Vortex for normal stuff > - Bortex for extreme OT, no rules > - Cortex for actual testing being done in real time by vortex people > - Dortex hmmm. only for antigravs based on 3rd time deriv of velocity! > > Aha! Vortex/Cortex messages could dump into the same archive, but with > automatically added prefix. Subscribe to both, send both to your usual > vortex email folder. Then it's still the same forum, but with an > automated mechanism to control the subject prefixes. To get that prefix, > just reply to one of those messages, or post to the other vortex addr. > But with a difference: people could sort messages by prefix or by FROM > addr. Or just ignore it and read everything. Or simply subscribe to just > one section, and never see any of the others unless you looked at the > archive. > > > > It looks to me like there's way too much traffic on vortex to read > > > every single message continuously for months on end, much less > > > clicking on linked articles. > > > > Personally, I'd prefer to skip a hundred threads a day than live with > > extensive moderation and death of the group. > > This vortex doesn't change. And not moderation, any more than "vortexC is > for torsion" needs moderation. > > > > > > Notes on one of my variations on the SPAWAR approach, which amounts > > to co-deposition on the sides of holes in a thin metal cathode. > > Thanks! Will peruse. > > > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci > >
