Date: 14 September, 02006 4:12:03 pm GMT-04:00
Subject: bbs
Hi, sorry to PM but (as happens quite often) my ISP has been blacklisted
again for the HG list (it seems that since the takeover of Wanadoo by
Orange, it decides that the ISP is fake and bounces them)..
May I ask you a great favour and ask you to forward this to the HG list as
it is regarding the suggested bbs.
Many thanks,
Colin Hill
Same here. I like to have everything sent to me, not to have to go and look
for it and, often, have to read everything because subject headers are not
always reliable and some add extra bits that are interest as a PS.
I belong to several lists and forums and would always opt for a list
providing that the subject is fairly restricted.
Everything on this list is HG based (usually) and therefore of interest to
me (to a greater or lesser degree).
A forum is great for something like a Playstation where the possibilities
are endless and so need some sort of subdividing or where there is a torrent
of emails every day.
The number of emails on this list is fairly small in comparison (and I am
actually subscribed twice because my usual ISP keeps getting blacklisted and
the mail keeps coming back so I have a spare).
it also requires a conscious decision to "log on", something which I can
forget to do for months on end.
I like the daily dribble of mails and, as they a really so small, I keep
nearly all of them (4151 in my HG inbox at present) and can always use them
as my own archives and use the "find" facility. My HG inbox only takes up
23Mb of space. Not a lot with today's hard drives.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [HG] bbs?
I agree that I'd like to have better archiving.
But that's the only thing I agree with. I want messages pushed to me, I
don't want to have to go look for them.
I, for one, will not use a forum type system. It isn't from lack of
understanding them -- I'm a software developer, and there are several that I
use to get support for various tools and applications I use at work. I find
them uniformly slow and cumbersome to use, and difficult to navigate. My
delete key is a lot faster for messages I'm not interested in than the time
it takes just to log in to yet another site that requires me to keep track
of a username and password.
--
Dennis Sherman
Chicago, IL, USA
----- Original Message ----
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:02:42 AM
Subject: [HG] bbs?
Dear hurdy gurdy gals and guys,
I hope that this note finds you all well.
Like, perhaps many of you, I have had an on-again-off-again relationship
with this email list. I have found myself at times, enjoying it, cursing
it, laughing at (er, it mean with) it, rolling my eyes at it, and often
un-subscribing from it because it just drives me nuts. Perhaps you have
some of these symptoms:
- small floods of messages regarding things in which you have no interest
whatsoever?
- frequent urges to scream at the messages asking questions that have
been asked and answered before? Sometimes MANY times before? (i.e. no
archive and search feature)
- the wish to have messages better organised by subject/thread/category?
(i.e. if you are only interested in historical stuff, you can look at that
only. Or if you have no interest in the latest plywood contraption from
Ebay, you can avoid that)
- the desire to view and respond to messages how and when you want to
rather than have them come tumbling into your inbox willy-nilly? And not to
have to set filters etc. so that you don't get HG-list messages filling up
your Blackberry or whatever when you're on the road?
- etc. etc.
My I propose that we move to a bulletin board system instead of an email
list? I'm sure that you are all familiar with BBSs, so you have an idea of
what I'm proposing. For those who still really want email, they can chose
to have all messages on a certain thread forwarded to the address that they
specify in the registration.
Of course I would like to know what you all think of this idea - I would
love to do a poll (something that is simple on a BBS) rather than have you
all write into the email list (further clogging up our in-boxes!). I think
that this would only really work if everyone on the list migrated to the
BBS. It would be a shame to have a BBS that puttered out for lack of
participation as it would be a shame for the current BBS.
If you want to have a look at what I have in mind, I've set one up for us
If you like what you see, please go ahead and register. I've made a guess
as to how is should be set up, but I welcome your input and suggestions.
Thanks and best regards,
ben
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