On Monday, January 22, 2007 12:19 AM [GMT+1=CET],
John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CPHennessy wrote:
On Sunday 21 January 2007 15:52, John Meyer wrote:
More to the point, why are these posts even allowed. Are we
supposed to take time out and send them a personal e-mail, as
opposed to just hitting the reply key?
Hi John,
Please have a look at many of the newbie posts, then hardly know
how to operate their PCs and definitely do not know what "mailing
lists" are about. Many of them are even surprised that the "product"
could possibly even be free so the concept of "moderation" is even
more alien to them.
Okay, maybe I didn't explain this concept well enough in my first
e-mail. My question has to do with why is there a form where they are
submitting these e-mails to an e-mail list they are not subscribed to
in the first place? If they don't understand what mailing lists are
about, why not a web forum?
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Mr. Meyer,
We have had this discussion several times over the last several months. For
full details of who thinks what please search the archives of this list as I
am not going to bore everyone by regurgitating all the details. The basic
argument is that if a newbie (or even an "oldbie") has a simple question but
is forced to subscribe to ask it, then s/he is going to be inundated with
tens if not hundreds of irrelevant (to him/her) e-mails per day which s/he
doesn't know how to filter; which are going to take huge amounts of time to
examine/delete and which will cost a considerable amount of time/money to
download for someone on a slow/pay-as-you-go connection.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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