On Friday 05 January 2007 23:14, gspurge wrote: > Peter Machell wrote: > > Except for the fact that web forums suck for discussions. > > Peter, > That is your opinion and one which you are entitled to. You may be > unaware that a MD betatester cancelled his subscription to this list as > he could not cope with the amount of incoming mail in his inbox. He is > however helpful in discussing MD on the Ausgp (and HCN) web based > forums. Each to their own I guess.
Gary, lots of people come and go, and just because they leave this list doesn't have any relevance to the new list, except that such a person may find the new list more tolerable as it won't have as many posts - like i won't be on it. I use huge numbers of filters and inbox folders to cope with all my incoming mail which subdivides it, all the 'normal operations' mail from the servers is ignored and the 'abnormal operations' mail can be seen quickly. I could do the same for this list - I could put anything written by Tom Bowden and Andrew Magennis in a 'only when very bored pile' and put things from Ken Harvey in a 'when politically motivated pile'. I was thrown off the hcn forum many years ago. I had been persisting in discussing the fact that 3 times my allergies database had vanished from MDW2. When we converted our data to Xprogram, all those allergies were found again, both linked to the original patients, some of whom were now allergic to the same thing 4 times, and all linked to the patient last in the alphabetical list, who was allergic to penicillin innumerable times. But the owners of that time didn't want to know, nor to allow others to know, and I am sure that everyone else put off the list was put off because they didn't provide fawning commentary on the programmes involved. By the way, I support Free speech, as well as Free Software, but not Free Beer -- "There is also a thriving independent student movement in Poland, and thus there is a strong possibility (though no guarantee) of making an EARN-Poland link, should it ever come about, a genuine link - not a vacuum cleaner attachment for a Bloc information gathering apparatus rationed to trusted apparatchiks." -- David Phillips, SUNY at Buffalo, about establishing a gateway from EARN (Eurpoean Academic Research Network) to Poland _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
