about european leaving in USA where do they belong too? Y On Wed, 09 May 2001, Marc van Leeuwen wrote: > > > >... if I'm the only one in the USA actively involved in this API. During > >the day (my day that is) very little activity here. > > > >Then "you guys" wake up and systematically create overload my e-mail account > >every night. > > > >So,... > > > >(1) Are Americans lazy? Prefering to follow Joshua and the "New Gods of > >Flash". > >(2) Are Americans shy? Prefering to lay low and mind their own business > >(snicker). > >(3) Are Americans stupid? Reading these posts in "drop jawed awe" but > >unable to formulate opinion or make a solid contribution. > :-) > > How funny, there was a discussion some time ago but inverted, I remember > that was Pascal asking "Am I the only european here ?" > > About the amount of mail, I do not like it too. I tried receiving digests > only, but in practice, it is impossible (i.e. difficult and unhandy) to > respond, to follow a single discution, so not so useful. I would prefer > instead of the mailing list a system "à la UBB", where a topic is clearly a > topic, not mails that cross each other. A second point why I would prefer > this is that I can check it whenever I want, not receiving lots of email. > If there is a topic I don't like, I do not have to receive (and delete) all > the responses to it. A last point would be the amount of mail that is > beeing sent. I surely think that a UBB-like system is more bandwidth-and > resource-savy, but I may be wrong. But of course, the annouce list is > surely better in a mailing-list form. > However, maybe for some of the receipients, a mail is handyier at work. It > easyier to justify "I'm reading my mail" than "I'm on the web, but on a > forum"... > So I raised a discussion that goes much more far than "Am I the only one > that wakes up with a full mailbox writtent by some europeans ?", but it is > maybe worth discussing > > Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev
