Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You have at your disposal an incredibly powerful tool: the computer you read your e-mail on. Most e-mail clients can allow you to filter your e-mail and I would suggest that you do that to cut down on the "noise" from the list. I do this, I'm sure others do also. Personally I enjoy the nature of this list. Even when things get a bit hot and people start hurling small nuclear weapons at each other, it's still a vibrant and (in general) thoughtful community. The nature of the medium allows for many uses - what is noise to you may be useful, even vital, to others. I enjoy the (generally) unfiltered nature of our group. I wasn't aware that Brian did the kind of monitoring/mediation he has discussed, but I trust him. He's the bartender and his establishment is the kind I enjoy visiting. Even threads such as this one provide a richness seldom encountered in other parts of the web. I honor it, and you, appreciate your suggestion but from my place at the table over by the kitchen I respectfully disagree. Adam On Nov 28, 2007 12:23 PM, Robert Lilley <54moggie@embarqmail.com> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >