[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: Not reading all posts in a thread

[Anita Hillin]

> SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote
>
> >>> Is there any way that this can be stopped?  Like, a reminder once
> a month or something?  <<<

To which Amanda replied:

If it's any consolation--and I doubt it is--this is not new. This has been
happening forever on the list. It has less to do with size, and more to do
with human, internet, and geographic nature.

[Anita Hillin] : I'm  kind of amused by the two pertinent issues (lurkers
and reading all posts), because for me, trying to avoid the problem of
repetition results in becoming a lurker far more often than I would have
supposed.  Because I have limited access to Yahoo during the day (unless I
can cleverly disguise reading these e-mails as work), I end up with a large
number of e-mails to read in the evening.  A post will inspire a brilliant
idea, then I'll discover six e-mails down that someone else has been
brilliant first, so my post would be redundant.

The other problem is business travel. After five days on the road, I have
hundreds of e-mails by the time I get back from my trip.  I have to decide
to delete a goodly number of posts, just to keep my account open, so I'm
going to miss some wisdom.  I suspect I'm not entirely alone in this.

akh




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