OT - Mail Manglement

[Phillip Ford]

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>The list would be a disaster as a newsgroup. Spam & e-mail harvesting.
>The searchable, list-generated archives are a manageable format.
>...
>Impulse posting and those who feel compelled to post on everything 
>might think twice since
>a reply takes a certain amount of effort to copy and paste relevant text.
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>A thousand thanks go to Andy and all @ the ECC for making this happen.
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>A tip of the hat to ye...
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>Regards,
>
>Jon Page, piano technician

Jon,

As someone who uses the list in this way (and to others using it in 
this way), what are your thoughts on trying to keep posts marked OT 
from going into the archive?  I thought that this was a good idea 
that came out of the latest round of discussions on OT posts.  But 
then, I use the archive as an archive, so I've already seen the OT 
posts and would prefer that they weren't in there.  Do you like 
having them in there?

I agree about the copy and paste part.  It does make you think twice. 
The original post on this thread was an example.  By the time I 
thought to make a reply to Bill's post, I had already deleted it, so 
I had to go into the archives to get it (did I really want to make a 
reply that badly?)  Also, after I copied out what I wanted and closed 
my browser it occurred to me that I didn't remember the subject line 
and I didn't want to go back in and get it, so I had to make one up. 
I now see why we see some rather cryptic or seemingly unrelated 
subject lines on posts from digesters.

I agree that Andy deserves a round of applause for making all this 
info so readily available.  Hip, hip, .....

Phil Ford
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