[Elecraft] The List (amsctalx at comcast.net)

[Arnie Grubbs]

I don't usually go on about this stuff but...
I agree that there should be some content for continuity, but I see a lot of people don't take the time to trim off the greater excess..  when that happens in digest form then the e-mail just gets clutter with a lot of redundant junk posted over and over, each time it gets longer. I dont see the need to repeat all this stuff 10 times or  more in the same e-mail.
 The digests get to be close to 75 to 100K long, and there are several (4-6) of them each day mostly due to multiple copies of the same reply to the same thread not trimmed from the end of a reply... Posting so that there is a complete history of the E-mail in each reply, so that there are more than maybe 2 layers deep at the most s a waste. I have seen a whole thread in one digest that goes down 7  or more layers, which is just crazy when you see all of the previous email from the thready copied in their entirety and repeated 4 -5 or 6 times earlyer in the digest too. 
 Then occasionally you get the guy who just replies and along with not bothering with  trimming fat from the rest of the thread, he just goes along and sends in the whole digest along with it.  Repeating ALL of the threads and all their repeats in another barrage of stuff to wade thru. 
If a person needs to have more continuity maybe it would work out better for them  to have it delivered in the DIGEST form, as usually there are more than enough messages in each thread that you can get an idea about what they are talking about... also you don't have to wade thru so many deliveries of them each day.
 Try it, if you haven't already, you might like it!
73  Arnie KA0NCR

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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:54:36 +0000 (UTC)
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I try to stay away from "opinion" posts, but I have to agree with Mr. Cady in that these emails lose a great deal of value with the context of previous posts. I look at eight different email accounts across five different devices, and I would be "lost" with respect to on-going reflector discussions without all of the previous post. 

Perhaps we can all agree on a particular format, but I would like to see this information remain in emails. 


Mike Alexander 

amsctalx at comcast.net 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cady" <fcady at ece.montana.edu> 
To: "Bob DeHaney" <bobdehaney at gmx.net>, elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:15:39 AM 
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] The List 

It's also annoying when repliers delete everything in the message so you 
have no idea what they are scribing about unless you read the original 
message, sometimes posted days ago. 

Like this one. :-) 

73, 
Fred KE7X 



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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:23:42 -0600
From: Terry Schieler <terry.schieler at wirelessusa.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] The List
To: "'Cady, Fred'" <fcady at ece.montana.edu>
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
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Exactly, Fred!  ;o)

Terry, W0FM



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P.S.  I probably copied more of this than I should have,.. but for the continuity of those not taking the digest form I will do it for you.  :)
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