(urth) list slowdown

[Fred Kiesche]

You know, you are right. My work is more important. So, adios.

On 8/16/10, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> f your recreational Reading is Interfering with Your Important Work, Sir,
> I do have a suggestion for You.
>
> Eliminate One or the Other.
>
> Or eliminate something.
>
> I don't know what.
>
> With me it was my left testicle.
>
> .
>
>> 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/).
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-- 
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/).