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[Saitaina]

Laura:

< just because a post doesn't get a response doesn't
mean no one read it.  Sometimes the post just says it all and the
only possible response is "Yeah-what s/he said!">

Completly.  That's one of the reasons I rarely write on the main list...I can't
think of anything more to add to the topic so I just silently agree with
everyone.  Though I know it seems as if posts go into the great abyss when not
replied to.  Of course I've gotten used to that as rarely do my posts get
acknowledge (on the rare occasion that I post) but that's for a number of
reasons.

Shaun wrote:

<Because an increasing number of people are now using e-mail
programs that don't have a plain text setting (a lot of aol users, for example,
are in
this situation now) or where the plain text setting is difficult to set (way too
difficult
for the average casual user?).>

Yes but as a Yahoo!Group we can change the group settings so that HTML is
stripped out and just text is left.  I have my own personal settings that way on
every list I belong to and every list I own (not HPfGU as I don't 'own' it),
mostly because my computer freaks out at HTML emails.

I'm not saying HPfGU will suddenly change this setting (if we haven't already,
woudln't know about that) but I'm saying it's an option of HTML is the only way
people can post and lots of list members are complaining about colours and or
whatever.

<If they are allowed, I think you will lose a lot of members.>

I don't really see people losing the right to use pretty colours as a reason to
jump ship...unless your already annoyed with us and are looking for any excuse.
As I stated above, this can be changed for the whole list, which means no matter
how someone posts, it all shows up uniform.  Concidering our demographic...I
think a lot of people would be happy with the whole non squinting factor.

Jen wrote:

< I'm just
wondering, from an Elf perspective--can it reach a point where there
are too many Elves to make decisions by consensus?>

You mean we aren't there yet?  No, seriously...er, I would say we're close to
too many elves considering how many days it takes to write an admin or make a
decision (I'm more of a snap decision girl, my elf time has taught me
patience...or at least how to appear patient).  Unless we lost a mass amount of
elves right before PoA was released, I don't think we would really need to bring
on too many/any.  It takes quite a while to train an elf and make sure they have
the swing of things, and bringing them on for a huge surge is more of a sink or
swim type thing that I wouldn't want to put them through.

<Or does it depend more on the number of posts
per day rather than actual group size? Just curious.>

How many posts, size, how many elves stage a rebellion and start throwing
eclairs around....many things factor into it.  The main factor would be a great
call from the elves of HELP.  That usually gets a response. :)


Saitaina
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