<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: OT - Mail Manglement</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><br> The list would be a disaster as a newsgroup. Spam & e-mail harvesting.</tt></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><tt>The searchable, list-generated archives are a manageable format.</tt></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><tt>...</tt><font face="Courier New"><br> Impulse posting and those who feel compelled to post on everything might think twice since<br> a reply takes a certain amount of effort to copy and paste relevant text.<br> <br> A thousand thanks go to Andy and all @ the ECC for making this happen.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">A tip of the hat to ye...</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Regards,</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Jon Page, piano technician</font></blockquote> <div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">Jon,</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">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?</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">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.</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">I agree that Andy deserves a round of applause for making all this info so readily available.  Hip, hip, .....</font></div> <div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Courier New">Phil Ford</font></div> </body> </html>