I have recently joined this Site, having used Legacy for probably about 10 / 12 years.
I have never, on other Sites, found Digest the best option for myself. The only way I could save e mails of Interest, on e.g. Rootsweb, was to resend the digest to myself, deleting all those I did not want to keep. It became so complicated, that I now, Never subscribe to Digest. Now, that I am in the advanced age group, I need stuff to be uncomplicated. Mary From: Jim Walton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 5:32 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] digest option is one way . . . Mike, I was in agreement with you until you went off on the "elderly." I for one, am elderly, not by my definition, but I am a senior citizen. I would venture to say, however, that I have more hours on the computer, and spend more hours online than the majority of users of this list, unless there are other "elderly" who match my history. But, the fact I've been using personal computers since before CP/M days has nothing to do with this list. This is a users list to help other users with Legacy issues. (For you newbies out there, CP/M came before DOS, and before that there were no disks on a computer; pograms were loaded from a cassette tape.) On the issue of this list, there seems to be a great interest in a digest mode and I would say, why not? I, for one, done like them, but others do. Does it hurt anyone to provide the customer what is wanted? I grew up in customer service and we had two basic rules. Rule #1. The customer is always right. Rule #2. Should the customer ever be wrong, refer to Rule #1. My personal preference? A forum. As one of the other users said, it's a matter of preference. Yours is different than mine, and I certainly don't have a problem with that. As another user pointed out, in different words, the is the Legacy Users Group, not the Legacy Group. While Legacy may host it, it is the users that keep it alive and their preferences should be taken into account. While it's been 40 years since I was a new user, I too have made all the new user mistakes. But we all learn, and it helps if we learn from each other. Jim Walton On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: [email protected] wrote: > I would like to comment on this listserv, although I have not been > subscribed for very long. Strictly speaking, this is a mailing-list not a listserv. Reason LISTSERV is a registered trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, PRV. As such, using the word "listserv" to describe a different product or as a generic term for any email-based mailing list of that kind is a trademark misuse. The standard generic terms are electronic mailing list, elist, or email list for the list itself, and email list manager or email list software for the software product that manages the list > 1. I have read many messages that were not > about verifying one's subscription, although that was the subject line. People just don't know what they're supposed to be doing :-) We have many elderly people on this list, and often, this is their first, tentative foray into the world of electronic communication. I still believe (like others) that computers should not be sold to the elderly without a Health Warning and a mandatory exhortation to try and learn about how things work on the Internet before they take the training wheels off. Failure to do so can cause ire on the part of the younger and more knowledgeable members of this group and the Internet in general. > 2. I have read many messages that appear to be totally personal and not > directed to my attention, with misleading subject lines. Tough! That's the nature of a mailing-list. You receive everything that gets sent to the list - whether you want it or not and regardless of whether you're interested in it or not. > 3. My inbox was already filling up way too fast for me with all kinds > of spam; now it's twice as full with individual messages from this user > group. Learn to manage your Inbox. Filters are very useful despite the slightly un-intuitive way that they have been implemented by bothe Yahoo! and Google, Alternatively, find an ISP that will stop 98% of the spam from ever reaching your Inbox. Mine does. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. 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