---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote :
On 9/5/2014 2:14 PM, anartaxius@... mailto:anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: As I related, I sort FFL posts in Yahoo mail. I don't delete them. I just prioritise the sort into different categories. I am now in the Neo interface, not e-mail, and not a single Richard Williams post is visible, so he must be in the bathroom or something. So generally I read some posts and not others, but they are all still available if I choose. > The older one get the more time we spend in the bathroom! The last time I checked human excrement still flows downstream. Most of the time I get around to reading all the posts on FFL - it's one of the few groups on the internet that discuss TM and the mechanics of consciousness, other than Facebook. I've been an informant on FFL since January 1, 2002 - post #724. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/724 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/724 Most of my stuff can be found using by searching the FFL archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife/yahoogroups.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The purpose of a discussion group is to discuss common interests; the purpose of a bulletin board is to post information. I first got interested in discussion groups on Usenet - designed by some computer geeks for use on Unix mainframes to exchange and share educational research materials between universities and schools. One discussion group which was started by some friends of ours in Austin, was alt.meditation.transcendental. We have been participating on various newsgroups since 1999 and we have used a variety of browsers including the Netscape and IE and Microsoft Outlook Express - lately, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Most professionals use Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird makes an excellent choice if you want to receive messages by electronic mail. If you are just a casual reader, any web browser will get you into the Yahoo Groups. And, from there you can respond or post a message in a discussion, after subscribing. For more serious participants you can also port your group messages to arrive via Yahoo Mail. Some serious informants will probably be wanting to do this for one reason or another. However, they key word here is "serious" informant. Most professionals use a dedicated news reader when participating in discussion groups or posting to a bulletin board. In Yahoo Groups, to port your messages to electronic mail follow these instructions: Click on Membership, then Edit Membership; then click on Subscription and select the Message Delivery, individual mail radio button, and then Save. It's not complicated. >I can't imaging ffl Posts just showing up in my Inbox. I need to prepare to >face ffl. Like you do when you are planning a trip to the bathroom. Is this >more on the 'A-ho Topic'? BMs good to report. I generally read Barry's posts because they often generate a lot of fallout, and they are often related to issues that FFL was designed to investigate. Barry and Michael seem to bring out the 'Cult Response' (I wonder if Herbert Benson ever wondered about that). Even though they are sorted into a more or less oblivion folder, I will occasionally read one of Richard's posts, or Nabby's, though I tend to skip posts that consist of one sentence, and even two or three because it is likely not to contain an argument or any useful information. I can mark a folder 'all read' at a touch. I do not have to delete because the folder is on Yahoo's server, not my hard drive, so it doesn't take up space on my equipment. The sort enables me to read the posts of a single person all in a bunch, and that gives me a better idea if reading that person is interesting. Then I can rewrite the sort rule to put them in another category, even in their own folder. If I am not interested in certain posts or posters, that does not mean someone else is also not interested. I know many people that thrive on meaningless conversation. If I do not read your posts, whomever you may be, it is not because I think you are a horrible person, etc, (though you may be nonetheless), for I may be just as much a non-entity to you as your are to me. The goal of spiritual practice, if there is one, is after all, to become a nobody. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool. ( —— T.S. Eliot)
