THAT is a "keeper"! ((Hugs))
John Barnett - Steubenville, Oh.
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From: terry tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [VAC] mailings
>Hi Hans,
>
>No offense taken. When you put 260 people in a group, there are that many
reasons for them being in
>the group. Some like the messages handled the way you described (see your
posting below) and some
>like to read ALL the messages so they can learn things they hadn't realized
they might need know.
>Undoubtedly, there are dozens of other reasons in between.
>
>I do believe that although a majority of the group's letters are aimed at a
specific sender instead
>of the group as a whole, the intention is for the group as a whole to
receive them and to either
>supplement the ideas, point out the risks or support them.
>
>In my opinion, together - the full group has a better chance of offering a
broad based,
>comprehensive perspective to one members question than one person
contributing to the answer by
>replying directly and privately to the questioner. On many occasions, I
read second and third
>replies with additional details supplementing an already solid answer by
someone else.
>
>If it was me asking the question, I'd want that to occur. I'd want to feel
the subtleties and have
>the opportunity to challenge my understanding by asking more questions. My
favorite time for
>starting a task is after I've given a lot of thought to the sequence for
doing it and have all my
>tools and supplies ready to use. This free wheeling discussion group helps
me to do that.
>
>What's the solution to the issue you raised? Each of us has to decide. For
me, the decision is
>simple. I scan the topics and speed read those which interest me. It rarely
takes more than 10
>seconds per message. If I don't want to reply, I delete. Within a minute or
two, I've narrowed the
>postings to only those I want to write a reply. On any one evening, my VAC
time (1/2 to 1 hour) is a
>small portion of my total computer time on related activities. For me,
that's peanuts.
>
>The current VAC system of having what amounts to a group discussion every
day with different people
>contributing to it - works for me. It's easy, it's fun and it's an
opportunity for me to learn new
>things each evening with the mere expense of an hour of my time. I look
forward to that hour.
>
>As a crusty old New Englander and Mayflower Pilgrim, I have a hot button
when it comes to wanting
>unlimited access to knowledge. There have been many generations in my
family where the opportunity
>for freedom of thought and unlimited access to the ideas of others was
intensely reinforced in me. I
>don't want any truck with other people narrowing my options, even if done
benignly in the spirit of
>trying to be helpful. I want to be my own judge of that. But, I'm glad you
brought up the topic and
>asked the question. Until you did, I hadn't thought about it at all. Thanks
for prompting me to
>think it through.
>
>Bottom line for me. The more email postings the merrier. I'd rather be the
one who decides what I
>want to learn than to have information withheld from me because someone
thinks I might not be
>interested. Let me be the determiner of what interests me. <grin> Let me
make the choice of using my
>delete button or not. (Yea! Yea!)
>
>Let me learn at my pace, at my convenience, with my skills and with
whatever ingenuity or reading
>talent I can muster up. Then, when I fail the first time, it's my own
stupid fault. But, if I should
>succeed and do it right the first time, then hip hip hurray for the
discussion group and all the
>benefit of whatever insight I might have gathered from it.
>
>
>Terry
>===============
>
>>Hello all fellow Airstreamers. I am a very new member to this site, so
>>please don't get offended by my question! I have only received e-mail
>>from you for four days, but have during that period received more than
>>200 e-mail. While I have learned a lot and appreciate every letter
>>addressed personally to me, I do believe that a great deal of your
>>letters are aimed at a specific sender instead of the group as a whole.
>>I can only speak for myself, but I do think it would make my daily email
>>business a little easier if everybody asked themselves whether this or
>>that is of interest to the entire group or not.
>>Thank you for your time.
>>Hans
>>
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