Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, what you say makes perfect sense for the select members of your 'family'. But you are assuming all LUG members are in the same family. Rob On Nov 28, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information