And of course, most email clients will let you go from one to the next. 20 times hitting next, rather than open/close is half the work - and the next one is always a surprise!!
Cheers Peter Z Snagglepuss #2622 --- In [email protected], "PeterE" <pete...@...> wrote: > > > John, > > A couple alternate options are to select 'digest' mode, which sends one > e-mail per day, including all of the day's postings, or to select no > e-mail at all (as mentioned earlier). > > Regardless, I agree -- Yahoo Groups are a bit difficult to use. But > still, good content drives me to participate in two different groups. > > What is the best 'forum' platform you've used? (listserve?) > > Pete > > --- In [email protected], "Ralph Ahseln" <rahseln@> wrote: > > > > John, > > > > The Short Answer is... Email is Personal and warm, Forums are > impersonal and cold ! > > > > I'm not being argumentative here, but, You answered your own question. > > You don't care for the Personal touch, you prefer Hard copy facts > > To me, I'd get bored if all I had to read was .. Facts > > > > Some people like to "Open up " mail to see what their "Friends" have > to say. Other's would rather read the pages of a newspaper. > > Thankfully, there are many of us who like to read what " people " say > and think. We enjoy the idea of Mail. > > > > I should imagine that You and others who would rather have a TEXT > approach to communications, would subscribe to the various Forums that > are available to you. > > Might I suggest http://catalina.sailboatowners.com/ They've been > around for some time. > > Of course, since you've already "wandered" over to Sailnet, You might > think about Starting a C-27 forum yourself. > > > > "Antiquated means of communication" ? > > Sorry, I'll have to disagree with your comment. There's nothing > antiquated with using the Personal touch.. > > > > Good Luck in your search, > > > > Ralph Ahseln > > "Oblio" > > Lying: Portland OR > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: John Daily > > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:38 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [IC27A] An actual forum perhaps?? > > > > > > > > > > So I wake up this morning after not checking my Yahoo mail account and > found over 20 messages in it, mostly from this group. While I would have > liked to have read them, the daunting task of having to open each one, > read it, delete it or save it, open the next one, yadayadayada....had me > cringing, so I just deleted all of them because the subject matter on > them really didn't interest me enough to go through the process. This is > a daily occurrence with me as I'm sure it is with others. Now I'm not an > IT guy nor a web developer but I do know there are much better ways for > people who share a common interest such as THEE MOST POPULAR SAILBOAT > EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE KNOWN WORLD to share information and > communicate. I wonder how many people just simply delete or put in their > spam box anything that comes in with the header IC27A. So in this line > of thinking I wander over to Sailnet.com just to be sure I'm not missing > something. Wouldn't you know it, there's a forum for every Catalina ever > made EXCEPT the 27. Surely something is amiss. What gives folks?? I've > not been on here long so could one of the older members please explain > to me why we have to use an antiquated means of communicating when there > is what appears to be a perfectly good forum tool just waiting for us to > use. > > >
