Charles,
This is the guy or son of the guy who refused to acknowledge an email
from Network Solutions or lift a finger to help let me pick up the domain
www.cavetex.net when it all went away with no notice, warning or anything on
September 19, 2005. I think it eventually was scarfed up by robot software to
the Chinese or Korean folks to be resold at a nice profit...
So my feelings is that yes they may have started it and did a good job at it,
but when they were done so to speak, they didn't pass the torch... When you
took over from me, I cooperated and helped make it a smooth seamless process
and made a friend in doing so... I hear you are going to dig with us at 5 Mouth
Cave... Great... I am looking forward to it...
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: JS White
To: Stefan Creaser
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Rethinking the delete button
I’ve read this thread with interest, consternation, and amusement all bundled
up together. Back when this mailing list was “CaveTex,” I spent a year (and
then some) as its administrator and moderator. I inherited the job from my dad,
who just got plain tired of trying to keep up with Luddites and flamers and
headaches from the list’s various hosting services.
Here’s what I think, for what it’s worth. The “me-toos” and one-liners are
indeed a nice campfire, sociable kind of response. You guys exist in a rare
community. I’ve seen the old-timers take care of each other in ways that just
don’t happen in conventional communities and families, and I feel
blessed—albeit in a very non-religious, non-denominational way. You rely on
each other for amusement, and you work together and learn together. I work
closely with another Caver-offspring in a 40-hour/week bureaucratic
environment. We marvel regularly at what a great thing it was to be raised by
our crazy parents and their friends. In most cases, you know you can count on
each other to care about important things in the same ways—family, friends, the
land, the caves, the knowledge…your own lives.
Use the Delete key as you see fit and keep your impatience to yourselves. If
you really want to be business-minded, be cautious with your subject-lines. Use
important first words: Trip Report, Work Weekend, Action Required, whatever.
But don’t disparage each other for brevity or lack of brilliance. Gil Edigar
can write an essay that would make any of us weep. Ted Samsel can make me laugh
so hard I fear I will pee myself from a single line. But every non-stellar
rejoinder or mundane reply meant something to the person on the other end who
hit “send.” Respect that and appreciate it.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Stefan Creaser <[email protected]> wrote:
Have you considered printing double sided?
I’ve left the history so you can check if this works…
Cheers,
Stefan
From: Simon Newton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] delete button
I have my secretary print all my emails to paper, so I'd prefer 1 page text
minimum (Times New Roman, 10 pt font).
Also, if you could remove the history chain at the bottom this would save a
lot of paper.
Thanks in advance for your compliance on this matter,
Simon
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fofo <[email protected]>
To: texascavers <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:31:40 -0700
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] delete button
Hi!
I use Mozilla's Thunderbird both in the office and my laptop. I know, it's
a throwback, now that everything is online, but you can set it up to pretty
much do whatever you want: leave messages on server, delete messages from
server, delete only the ones that you delete, have messages delivered directly
to specific folders, group messages by thread, etc. It has a pretty decent junk
mail filter, and setting it up is easy.
Even in slow connections, usually I don't even notice when messages are
downloaded (unless it's the first time of the day and there are several big
files to download, and for really bad connections you can put a limit on the
size of files to download). I always have the preview panel on, and it
literally often takes less than one second to read a message (especially short
replies), delete them and move on to the next one.
OK, 162 words. Clear to go!
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