Your sorta right D.O.
The advantage that maybe you are not aware of is that there are forums
out there where you get a message stating that someone has contributed a
comment (or more) to a thread you have subscribed to.
When yo go there, there might be pics, or just text, or both. It does
not download to your computer. It kinda nice! There are a myriad of
topics that try hard to remain "on topic". The monitors do a bang-up job
of keeping...well...everything on track.
This last part might seem limiting, but it is not. I like to look at it
as if we were all standing in the same room. There would be those who,
by their own hand, fall by the wayside rather quickly...for all the
right reasons.
I cling to this forum because I have listened here for many years. So
have many others, whose names we see once in a while. And like me, will
contribute as we see fit not to read ourselves in print, but to
contribute to the love and art of soaring. I say cling because the
content has been more of those who wish to toot the own horn as opposed
to, As Harley so rightly put it...contribute.
If I may be so bold as to point out two things:
1) There are those who contribute valuable information from time to
time, because they "want" to.
2) There are those who see the forum as their captive audience.
So, given the above, it does not take a rocket scientist to realize that
even it will never change. Even in olden times everyone needed a court
jester.
I could apply filters to those that the majority would punt (I am being
kind) from that room I mentioned, but then I would not be so richly
rewarded with the affirmation that life is as it should be here on RCSE.
Next time you read a message which is self-promoting, pontificating,
etc, etc, think about that fact that without this list they have little.
Chances are they have alienated everyone around them.
So give them their glory.
Instead of calling a buddy to join me tomorrow to go to a local flying
mecca (Chris's cottage), I sent him an email. The reason being is that
he had MAJOR mouth surgery today, I won't wake him up if he is in pain
asking him to us us to fly. We got home this evening and there's a
message stating..."I will be there". That's all.
I did not start typing this message thinking that I needed to include
some sort of soaring content. I do not give a RAT'S ASS whether I did or
not. Neither should the rest of you. For those of you who "elect" to get
the digest version, live with it. For those of you who dislike certain
folks, use your delete key...only after you have afirmed the above truisms.
Whatever you do, don't tune out.
oh ya...get rid of AOL
OK, I can't resist..for the content nazis...don't hit the ground too
hard with your saiplane today, and buy it an ice cream on the way home.
d. o. darnell wrote:
Why are folks unsubscribing?
It's probably because they use TEXT ONLY format, (the requested and
proper way for this type of forum) and are very, very tired wading thru
HTML, headers, TO: lists, and other unusable garbage.
I love to read Gordy, cause the man's got soul, but he too is another
MIME. :<)
AOL isn't controllable, according to users. Cant turn MIME off? Can't
turn Gordy off either, come to think of it!
I think the digest-format is best cause it's fastest when scanning and
skipping. Threaded forums )RCUSERS) are OK for more granular
information, but I don't read any so I may be missing the point.
Whatever.
IMHO, Outlook just plane sucks: (to many bells for the average, at-home
user and VERY hackable).
Because of the wah the Internet works, we DON'T need pictures or
attachments in our kind of forum. If you want to post pictures, etc,
you should put em on your own web page/site and put the URL in the
RCSE message. Those who want to look can and the rest are not burdened
with unwanted content. Speaking of which, about 70% of the RCSE
message traffic is now unusable (HTML). We don't need all the fat
going back and forth and I'm not really interested in work-arounds.
May this it the reason? Maybe not.
Just my .02
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