[Elecraft] A heartfelt plea (Actually two)

[James Austin]

It is definitely fair, especially given the published list guidelines,
however getting the subscribers of a large internet mailing list to follow
guidelines is like herding cats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herding_cats


On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Scott Simpson <sasimpson at gmail.com> wrote:

> ah, understood.  sounds good.  i think that is fair.
>
> scott
> sasimpson at gmail.com
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:37 AM, iain macdonnell - N6ML <ar at dseven.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Scott,
> >
> > There is (was?) a convention of including the a product tag in the
> > subject of product-specific posts - e.g. "[K3] What the heck is a
> > "sync board"?"" - so that those who do not own / have no interest in
> > that product can filter those messages into a black-hole. See item 4b
> > at:
> >
> > http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm
> >
> > 73,
> >
> >     ~iain / N6ML
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Scott Simpson <sasimpson at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > so i did some looking through the headers, you want to look for this:
> > >
> > > List-Id: Elecraft Discussion List <elecraft.mailman.qth.net>
> > >
> > > it appears in both digest and regular list emails, so if you filter
> > > where List-ID contains elecraft.mailman.qth.net, you should be fine.
> > >
> > >
> > > scott
> > > sasimpson at gmail.com
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Kevin Luxford <
> elelist984 at elitemail.org
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Guys,
> > >>
> > >> 1.    There is some considerable slippage from the standard of
> including
> > >> the Elecraft product in the subject field.  Makes it very hard for
> those
> > >> who have filters set up to move mail into appropriate folders.
> > >>
> > >> 2.     The other problem has to do with those who use a digest
> reference
> > >> as their subject header.
> > >> This is absolutely meaningless for those of us who get the downloads
> as
> > >> they occur.  I am not going to waste my time opening your email to see
> > what
> > >> it is about if you do not have the good manners to tell us in the
> > subject
> > >> heading.  The fate of such emails is the delete button.
> > >> I am already deleting many emails which have just a one or three word
> > >> comment plus all the overhead associated with unnecessarily included
> > other
> > >> email texts and the obligatory stuff from The Elecraft Mailing List.
> I
> > >> just do not have unlimited disk storage.
> > >>
> > >> 73
> > >> Kevin
> > >> VK3DAP / ZL2DAP
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