WARNING: This is a highly opinionated message and may cause serious head
injuries!
First off I would like to say to Mr. Tree Hugger that is not the attitude
to have... Your generation as well as past generations are the ones
destroying this earth. I would like to say my generation is much more
earth conscious than yours, but it isn't...how unfortunate. True...classic
cars pollute little more than modern cars, but it is because of technology
such as the automobile that this earth will perish. Things would be much
better if we all had brains the size of peas...
*****
Ok now for the Forsale, Non-Content, off content, commercialization, etc.
stuff.
As one of the leaders of the Anti-Trevor forces I must say Trevor is
correct, IMHO. If I had wanted to subscribe to a list about a certain
topic I would have. I DID NOT subscribe to the MG List to receive emails
with items forsale and advertisements. I subscribed to the AutoJumble list
for that (note the AutoJumble list is ALL British parts)!
I would say on average most of the members on this list are subscribed to
1-3 email lists. Chances are they are all automotive related. I KNOW that
in the case of Trevor and I this isn't true. I'm on 4 LBC Lists, and 5
other lists (non-auto). I usually get about 550 messages a day. And I hit
the delete key about 500 times...
The delete key is only effective when the number of messages isn't in that
high. I used to argue with TB about the delete key, now I realize he was
right!
Anyway if you look at the SOL website/Team.Net you can read the rules about
sending commercial posts to the list. This is why the AutoJumble list was
created...so that you can post commercialized mail, but only to those who
want it!
But sometimes this can be taken to the extreme and the former list becomes
a wasteland. This is the case with the Inet-Access list, which used to be
a pretty decent list. Now one member who likes setting up lists for
certain topics is sucking the juice out of the VERY general Inet-Access.
Inet-Access is a general list for ISPs to discuss issues that effect the
ISP market, new equipment, etc. This individual has now setup lists such
as ISP-Reporter, Billing, Tech/Equipment, Finance, Chat, Marketing,
TakeOvers. Now you can see the problem with this all the posts that would
have gone to Inet-Access are now distributed to quite a few other lists
(about 15 of them). This has turned Inet-Access into a virtual wasteland,
compared to a year ago...
So yes, to keep on topic is good. But to hold a list ONLY to the TOPIC is
bad. What if Trevor started MG-Buying, MG-A, MG-B, MG-MIDGET, MG-T,
MG-Selling, MG-Parts, MG-Chat...
But I do feel getting commercial posts off this list is something that
would be good. AutoJumble is the solution.
Things like Frank Zappa and Cats should NEVER be discussed in detail as it
has been on this list, it is pointless and upsetting.
*****
List/Email rules
Some of you have started to change the way you reply to messages. I would
just like to remind you to please SNIP the irrelevant parts of your reply,
so it saves some space. I had a reply to an email the other day and the
author quoted 3 other whole message in his reply, and he only wrote one
sentence!
And it is tough to understand/follow an email if you have no idea what that
person is talking about. So please do leave the relevant parts of the
previous message in your reply.
A while ago I proposed a few "Pre-Subject" Warnings:
(a few other listers suggested this, and a they do it also)
Change the subject line, when your reply has deviated from the original
subject.
Secondly the prefixes to the subjects are a great idea...
If you are going to post a fosale, I would use (FS) in your Subject line...
FS= ForSale
NoMG = No MG content, but may have something to do with something relevant
NC=No content, having nothing to do with anything on this list
OFF= Off Topic, having nothing to do with the Automotive World
and then...
MGTC,D,F
MGA
MGB
MGC
MGF
MGRV8
MIDG
etc...
This would still save some listers some time in finding the content they
want. And it lets other listers read all the mail without being subscribed
to 20 other lists.
Ok, I have stuff to do...I really do!
Kai
Kai Radicke -- mowogmg@pil.net, 1966 MGB @ http://www.pil.net/~mowogmg
Dialogue Internet - Intelligent Internet Solutions (Net Khan)
IRC: irc.voicenet.com, #inet-access (my nick: ActiveX or KMR)
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