[600MRG] Digest issues....trimming posts....

[W2XJ]

		I am a member of dozens of groups, ham radio, photography and some professional broadcast groups. I find it frustrating when a discussion gets edited and if one is late to the discussion the context is lost. On a few groups members are pushed to write for the digest and not the free back and forth that should be taking place. This group was doing well with discussion of amps and homebrewing but looks like it may be headed towards moderator excess as well, too bad. 
My attitude towards digests is:
They make little sense and require too much effort to extract real information
They are a creature of the 1990s. Today there is more than enough storage and bandwidth  cheaply available that digests are unnecessary. 
		
Email is easy to filter and extra accounts can be had for free. I have three separate accounts for lists separate from my personal and business acounts and separate from my merchants account. As an example, all my photography related groups go into one account. Ham radio another. When I open that mailbox, I get the subject lines of all related groups so I see subjects for large format along with macro photography and so on. I only open those of interest.
For those who are easily offended, it is easy to build filters and send offending topics straight to the trash without ever being seen. 
My most active list has mostly broadcast professionals as members. Posts are almost never edited and members who do edit are usually criticized. The moderator has blocked the digest feature. Those who don’t want an unabriged live stream are encourged to read the archives. That list is very active and a lot of useful information is exchanged. 

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From: Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [600MRG] Digest issues....trimming posts....
To:  <sbjohnston at aol.com>,  <w2xj at w2xj.net>,  <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>,  <600mrg at mailman.qth.net>


I'm subscribed to about 8-12 lists.  Some I want to receive close toreal-time others reading a summary a couple times per day issufficient.  Consider sorting 700+ e-mail per day and you get theidea.  I subscribe only two digest form and I've already told how Ido replies (cut-n-paste).   Consider that easier than deleting16 to 20 e-mail everytime I reply to the list.  But then the youngergenerations want instant gratification.

Remember when you belonged to a group, you typed the letter, made copies,inserted each into an envelope, put on a stamp, mailed it and waited acouple weeks for a reply.  Most hams of the day checked into netsand passed their traffic that way.  Now most hams do more e-mail,Hmm.

73, Ed

At 04:27 AM 1/29/2018, sbjohnston at aol.com wrote:
W2XJwrote:

>Anyone with basic email competancy doesn’t need a digest. 

Anyone with basic English competency would know how to spell"competency".  

See how easy it is to criticize someone online?  

Can't you imagine that someone might prefer a summary of the dayspostings, rather than having to review a bunch of individualmessages?


Steve WD8DAS

sbjohnston at aol.com
http://www.wd8das.net/
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