(urth) list slowdown

[Fred Kiesche]

Not only do some of us read the list online (me), but some of us read
it on dialup (also me!).

As for reading every posting of every thread--it seems when I skip,
then that is when I miss something illuminating and insightful and I
kick myself for not having experienced it as well.

I would vote for longer messages/thicker threads rather than an echo
chamber of me toos or just adding something for the sake of adding
something. I find myself approaching a need to delete all and start
afresh or just unsubscribe from the list until Real Life (TM) allows
me to catch up again.

On 8/16/10, Dave Lebling <dlebling at hyraxes.com> wrote:
> I do many things to help control the list and yet I find the volume
> nearly overwhelming.
>
> I hate to do the "when I was a lad" thing, but in the old days on the
> list (before Long Sun, before Short Sun, etc.) most of the posts were in
> the nature of short essays rather than the quick
> few-lines-added-and-many-quoted that we are seeing lately. People would
> read them and comment thoughtfully with original content. No doubt my
> memories are showing the sunsets more beautiful and the leaves more
> green, but interesting new ideas (like the connection between Greek myth
> and Silk's life) are lost in the shuffle at the current volume of
> messages per day.
>
> And get off my lawn!
>
> -- Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha
>
> James Wynn wrote:
>> I hereby promise to play by the rules from now on. Although I'm doing
>> it "by rote" without any real comprehension of the problems of those
>> who want it to slow down. *Do people read all their mail on line?* *I
>> thought IMAP systems like gmail had made that unnecessary.* Do they
>> feel a genuine need to follow every thread from start to finish?
>> *Can't you just create a rule to put anything with "urth" in the in a
>> separate folder?*
>
>


-- 
F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on
being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children
(http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).