What you have described here is way too complicated for anyone except
you, me and Alex. You've got to realize, Bhairitu, that most people
can't even figure out Yahoo Neo; and at least two are trying to use a
macro in a word processor to post their replies.
I've already alerted this group six times, once in detail, about the
great features of Mozilla Thunderbird, but they ignored me. Barry is
supposed to be a tech wizard, but it seems to be taking a few months for
even him to get the smarts to get the free Thunderbird. Go figure.
Apparently you, me and Alex are the only three professionals subscribed
to this list. Thanks for all the great information - I owe you one.
On 12/20/2013 2:47 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
On TB after reading the few relevant messages I right click and select
"Mark Folder Read". The retention is set for 10 days. That way if
someone refers to a post a few days back or I want to quote it's still
in the folder just not displayed. I have various displays such as the
default "Unread", Recent Mail (usually 24 hours), Last 2 days, and
even Not Junk which gives me everything still in the folder. There is
also a sub folder which also displays messages with the word
"Bhairitu" in it so I don't miss any errant posts addressed to me.
On 12/20/2013 12:33 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
Yeah, with Thunderbird all you have to do is hit the delete key if
you don't like to read the message and then move on to something more
interesting. Anyone that is still using the Yahoo Neo web site for
their news reader could benefit from moving up to something more
sophisticated. The Google Chrome browser also makes a decent
newsreader. Yahoo sucks as a news reader!
On 12/20/2013 10:59 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
Ever try this group with an email client like Thunderbird? It's a
completely different experience from the web site. It's so easy to
ignore of anxiety prone threads this way. Plus one can read the
group so many different ways including custom ones. That's why I
always opposed posting limits because they seemed to be an indicator
of some kind of immaturity of the users who just needed to grow up.
On 12/20/2013 02:25 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In [email protected], wrote:
>
> Rick booted indifferent_netizen, who seems to have been Ravi. It
appears that Ravi is subscribed under another ID, and by using the
hide email address option and constantly changing Yahoo aliases, he
can post as he pleases and not get booted off. That's the price of
Rick configuring FFL for anonymous posting.
*/Having just scrolled /**/*/in Message View /*through the list of
86 posts made since I logged out last night, and having not found a
single one that I felt like clicking on to read, I've gotta respond
to Alex's drive-by with a hearty "I told you so."
The problem is not anonymous posting; the problem is using this
place as a forum for ego-wars and petty squabbles, and mistaking
them for intelligent conversation. 825 posts since midnight Friday,
and over half of them fall into the above category, posted by only
a handful of people. This handful have by now established enough of
a "track record" that I feel safe in ignoring anything they have to
say for the rest of the incarnation.
The old posting limits may have been a pain for you, Alex, but they
kept this place *somewhat* readable and worth visiting. I have to
say it's gone past that point now. I scan the list of posts and the
only names I'm even tempted to click on are anartaxius and
s3raphita and Bhairitu and merudanda and steve.sundur and
occasionally emptybill and cardemaister.
Doc occasionally posts something interesting and non-"Look At Me"
these days but it's difficult to tell from the first few words in
Message View so I usually give his posts a pass just to be sure.
Share seems to have two qualities her tormentors do not -- range
and an ability to feel positive emotion -- but to be honest most of
the things she's interested in I'm not, so I often skip her posts,
too. MichaelJ and Edg are occasionally funny, so I sometimes give
their posts a shot.
I *understand* that the old posting limits were a pain for you,
Alex, and I don't blame you in the least for wanting them gone. But
I DO have to point out that what many warned of as the consequence
of getting rid of them seems to have come to pass, in spades.
There are essentially NO new posters; who would *want* to come
here, given what the place has degenerated into? Some of the old
voices have moved on as well, possibly partially because of Neo,
but my bet is they don't see anything here worth participating in,
either.
I guess in a way I should be thankful, because my "reading" of
Fairfield Life now takes less than five minutes a day. That suits
me just fine, because I actually have a life, and things to do.
Sad though, that so few could have been allowed to ruin a place
that was formerly enjoyed by many...
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