[Leica] OT Who am I to say

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At 03:23 PM 11/28/2007, you wrote:

>Having received messages from this group for several months now, I
>cannot help but notice the amount of bandwidth used up by a few
>individuals.  These folks send emails to the group (thousands of us)
>as though they were instant messages in a chat room ? often containing
>just a few words.  There is an overhead to move those few words  and
>since 'green' and 'conservation' are PC these days, I'd think we would
>want to conserve resources.  Think of all those seconds saved in not
>hitting the delete key - I betcha we could save a whole man day per
>month in that alone.  But who am I to say?
>
>Rob


Rob - I'm probably one of your "few 
individuals".  The LUG is a family and we're 
having a conversation.  Would we use fewer 
resources if we wrote our notes on paper (trees) 
with pencil (lead) and sent them by mail 
(gas)?  Or maybe we should pick up the phone and 
call?  (I don't know about you , but I can't 
afford calls all over the world to each 
individual on the list)  E-mail seems to be the 
most "green" way to communicate.  If you are not 
interested in the conversation, it will take you 
less time and energy to hit the delete key than 
to read the message and fume about how irrelevant 
it is.  I'm not at all interested in some of the 
conversations on the LUG but I can usually tell 
by the subject line whether I want to open the 
message.  I very much appreciate all of the LUG 
messages that I do read.  Maybe you should only 
join lists that are strictly moderated to stay on 
topic.  I belong to several of those and they're 
efficient for business topics but deadly boring 
and predictable.  I prefer the LUG.

Tina

Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA, EP
www.tinamanley.smugmug.com