Two reasons not to do it: First, not every one has broadband.
I delete most posts, keeping only those of interest, and filing them locally. I don't want to plow through all posts to refind something. -John =============== > Has anyone discussed making this mailing list into a centralised forum > on web server. The benefits would be that all replies are naturally > threaded, so it's easy to scroll and see context, and threads do not > get disjointed by some broken email systems out there. This system > lends itself to being able to be searched so we can all look up things > easier instead of reposting the same questions over and over. It can > still be a closed shop with login for access and any spammers could be > easily removed. With it centralised, this could reduce the amount of > traffic that has to be sent out to clients and there are no problems > with people going on vacation and setting an autoresponder by > accident. It could be split into various sub-forums with specialities > in different time-nuts context so people who have no interest in > certain subjects could miss them. There is no more multiple time-nuts > footers added to each posting. Most people have full web access now > and there is really little need for just a Usenet style newsgroup. It > would also keep this stuff out of our email boxes which should be left > for perhaps more immediately relevant things in our lives, not that > time-nuts is irrelevant by a long shot. > > Now I'd better duck. > > 73, > Steve > > 2009/7/31 Arnold Tibus <[email protected]>: >> Top Posting, Mid Posting or Bottom Posting, >> I agree to not discuss it extensively. >> >> But why it is necessary to fill up the archive space with twice, triple >> or even >> more times of: >> >>>>time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>>>To unsubscribe, go to >>>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>>>and follow the instructions there. >> >>>time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>>To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>>and follow the instructions there. >> >> I do not understand it. Can this be solved? >> >> Perhaps it is wrong to just delete at least this part, but it does save >> some space. >> >> HTML is very good for Internet information pages, but personally I have >> some >> problems having to read through never ending Spaghetty Lines. Ok, when I >> trim >> my mailer prog to show only a quarter of the screen width these lines >> get wrapped >> to be readable. >> >> I do not use the multi featured mailing programs. I want to avoid any >> hidden >> codes to get active. I do only need just ASCII or ANSI characters for >> typing >> text. Perhaps I am alone whith this behaviour... >> >> Why not to use the different ways of posting all together? >> >> When the response does follow more or less immediately I think it is not >> necessary to rehash what I lready have on my disk. Perhaps just >> mentioning the >> subject with date/ time may be sufficient. If there are doubts then I >> think to add the >> previous text at the end is sufficient, even if it sounds to be more >> logic to put it >> in front. In most cases I anyway step down immediately to the new text >> without >> having read this known old part... >> >> I find the Center Posting important when the mail is complex containing >> lots of different points and statements or questions, but that does not >> seem to be >> read easily either. >> >> Thanks Rex for your mail and pointing to the WIKI I didn't know about. >> >> Excuse me, ecause my answer is not specific to just one previous mail I >> just >> do not repeat them. >> >> Arnold >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > > > -- > Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD > A man with one clock knows what time it is; > A man with two clocks is never quite sure. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
