list slowdown

Dave Lebling · 16 Aug 2010, 23:36 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: dlebling at hyraxes.com (Dave Lebling)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:36:14 -0400
Subject: (urth) list slowdown
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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?* 

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