MetaTopic: The list (was Re: Later)

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Ed Jones" <ej0c at raex.com>
Cc: <Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: MetaTopic: The list (was Re: Later)


> Quoting Ed Jones (Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:34:30 -0500):
> [...]
>>  The point was that the chime on my email box sounds way too often,
>> every time someone on this list gets an urge to vent about biometrics
>> or whatever.
>
> You can always switch to digest mode.
>
> And if you think this list has too much volume, you haven't tried many
> lists, have you?  :-)
>
>>  Also, having the archived messages stored on a searchable server is
>> much preferable to a) storing them on yeah many clients, or b)
>> repeating the same questions.
>
> Well, I have every message posted to this list archived and searchable
> right here on my own computer, where I don't have to be online to read
> them.
>
> But, to each his own.

If he want's to leave his email client on all the time, and wants that 
stupid ding every time one comes in, then he has a problem with email, not 
with any particular list or other users of a list.
It's not reasonable to even consider everyone else doing something different 
to accomodate his dislike of the way email works.
I wish everyone else on the road would stay out of my lane but sadly I must 
accept that the roads are full of other drivers.

The real answer is get a client that allows you to customize the 
notifications so that you set up a mail rule to catch fp list mail and 
direct it to it's own folder, and exclude those mails from triggering the 
notification.
Maybe his client already allows that, in which case he should just learn how 
to use it.
Maybe his client doesn't, but he needs to use that client anyways for more 
important features, in which case tough.

Resolving the dillemma by using the digest mode or by leaving the list or by 
disabling the sound notification, or paying less attention to the 
notification, are all reasonable solutions.
Complaining that everyone else should send less mail or that the list should 
take some other form that's convenient for him at the expense of others' are 
not.

There are newsgroups and lists I don't subscribe to because they are have 
too much traffic, but I never posted to them saying so like some kind of 
accusation.
They are very popular and have a lot of subscribers and that's just life. 
It's for me or it's not for me but either way it's my problem not theirs.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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