[Elecraft] Listings out of control

[Don Wilhelm]

Yes, list activity has become more diversified as the Elecraft product 
line has expanded, and traffic has increased.  Setting up email filters 
to sort things into categories of your choosing is quite helpful.  If we 
can "self-police" to make it easier for others, then let's please do 
that.  Even at this time, I would not like to see this list split into 
product specific reflectors, there is too much Elecraft commonality to 
do that.

I actually scan all posts to the Elecraft reflector (and the KX3 Yahoo 
Group) as well as several other forums.  Thunderbird faithfully sorts 
the Elecraft email from the various other things I receive - I simply 
filter the subject with "[Elecraft}" and it goes into my Elecraft 
folder.  I know that on many days that folder gets 50 to 100 emails, but 
going through them and making a quick "delete or read" decision does not 
sound too tough to me YMMV.  If you do not use filters to separate the 
reflector postings from your other email, I can understand your 
frustration.  Most all email clients offer some sort of filtering that 
will put your emails into appropriate folders.

Yes, do use top posting.  In the past, that was considered as bad 
"netiquette" but I think with the use of phones to read email, that 
attitude is going away fast.  Post in-line only when you cannot do it 
any other way, and do not bottom post - which requires the reader to 
scroll through all the prior information (that he has already read) to 
find something that was added - and often finds that nothing was added, 
the sender just hit send too quickly.
I do not read email on my phone, but since I scan all posts, I must make 
a quick decision to read or delete.  If your added information is not at 
the top of the post, I will delete it - there are many others who share 
my sentiments (Eric included - I don't know about Wayne).

73,
Don W3FPR

On 3/30/2012 7:12 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
> Nobody is going to have a clue what might be boring to you or not, or
> what your attention span might be.  You're the only one who presumably
> knows that.  That's why email clients have the ability to set up
> filters, and it's worth learning how to use the delete key for those
> that sneak through.  It's also why many list sponsors recommend the use
> of top posting ... so you can more easily ignore the redundant parts of
> messages that some posters are too lazy to edit out.
>
> I get well over 100 emails per day from various lists and it takes me
> mere seconds to weed out the junk from the stuff I might be interested in.
>
> By the way, "at one time" Elecraft had fewer customers and this list had
> fewer subscribers.
>
>