Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/06

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Subject: Re: Where Angels Fear To Tread
From: "Kent Smith" <unipac@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:39:58 -0700

Chuck,

Can you point me in the direction of this list..... I can always use more
email! ;)

Kent Smith
unipac@teleport.com
Portland, Oregon

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> From: Chuck Warman <cwarman@wf.net>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: Where Angels Fear To Tread
> Date: Tuesday, August 05, 1997 8:12 PM
> 
> >I wonder how we are going to manage this thing in 1 - 2 years from now
when
> >the Internet and the LUG will be 2 - 4 times todays size. 100 - 150
> >messages a day? This looks like a real issue.
> >
> I subscribe to a flyfishing list which (in non-fishing season) AVERAGES
> almost 200 messages a day.  Two things keep it workable for me:  I
> subscribe in digest form, and the members are very disciplined about
> accurately captioning threads and individual postings.  I scan it daily
for
> useful or interesting messages, replying to perhaps two or three.  The
> whole process takes about 15 minutes.  
> 
> Maybe the LUG can learn from this.
> 
> Chuck