I apologize. I did not mean to tell you what to discuss and what not.
(And in fact, I wasn't. I was voting, and I got some thumbs up for that.)
I think I am one of many followers of this list that joined (right)
after October 28, because, apart from a few blogs that seem to repeat
each other's messages, it is about the only place where you see the news
fast. Messages here are sometimes primary info, sometimes early info,
and many times they are accompanied with great commentary. So it is a
great place to be. Take that as a compliment.
I don't have any evidence for it ( maybe Bill has), but I think the
number of passive subscribers of this list has grown immensely since
October. Many more will just read the web version at mail-archive.com. I
guess many of these, like myself, will not be physicists, and will only
partly understand the most technical posts. And they will not all be
able to contribute much. This may be a different situation from a year
back, when you 'old farts' were on your own. Again, you can take that
larger number of readers as a compliment, but "you" (or "we") may also
see it as a responsibility.
A discussion about Mary Yugo's identity was not what _I_ was waiting
for. It just won't bring _me_ much. In fact I don't care about _all_
your identities, and I take what _everyone_ says with a grain of salt,
and _all_ of you may have hidden agendas and may be selling calorimetry
or other equipment. I'm on here to learn about the e-Cat and LENR, and
whether it will really change the world, which I hope, and tend to believe.
Amidst all this sometimes the question pops up whether a web based forum
would be a better format. These proposals probably come from new
subscribers. I'm undecided on that, myself. It is much harder to see the
time line of posts in a forum, and it is harder to see what you have
read and what you have not. On the other hand, it would be easier to
skip side discussions that interest you less or are more off-topic (like
on people's identities). The fact that the proposal keeps popping up may
be an indication that vortex-l as a mailing list has reached a critical
mass where it just doesn't work too well any more.
Andre
On 01/29/2012 01:05 AM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint wrote:
Agreed, 110%...
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:01 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:A huge Rossi (bad) thing to be revealed soon. (Daniele
Passerini)
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Andre Blum<andre_vor...@blums.nl> wrote:
I vote for stopping the discussion about MY's real identity right here.
I vote all you johnny-come-latelys quit telling us old farts who have
supported this forum for over 15 years to quit telling us what you do and do
not want us to discuss.
:-Þ
T
