[HPFGU-Feedback] Just curious...

[Shaun Hately]

On 13 Apr 2004 at 22:04, Kelley wrote:

> I'm wondering -- how many folks here also own / mod / help run a 
> Yahoo group?  Or used to?  I know plenty have and do; just wondering 
> if there's a significant number of 'mods' here on Feedback, I suppose 
> in comparison to the proportion on the main list.

I own about five, help to run another three or so - plus being a 
mod on three other non-yahoo based e-mail lists.
 
> Also curious, in how many groups are people here typically active?  I 
> mean, I belong to a jillion, but am only really active / actively 
> lurk on about a dozen or so.

I'm on about 250 groups - active on about 50 of them. It helps that 
I only sleep three hours a night (-8 Actually, that's one of the 
reasons I joined groups - it helps to fill in dead hours and I have 
a lot of them.

> At the moment, there's been quite a discussion in one of those groups 
> about "digest readability" (basically "snipping") and "top posting 
> vs. bottom posting" (top posting -- new comments placed at the top; 
> bottom posting -- our convention of quoted material first with new 
> comments following).  Not surprisingly, there are as many opinions as 
> there are list members, <g>, but there are decent points made about 
> both options.  

There can't be! Top-posting is inherently evil and cannot be 
justified under any circumstances on a list. (-8

> Anyway, considering how many times the list elves have discussed 
> these issues, it's just kind of amusing to me that so many others are 
> having the same discussions. <g>  Also reinforces that attentive 
> moderation and posting rules can be Good Things. ;-)

I've been seeing discussions like these for well over a decade now 
in different forums - it is amusing to me as well, that people keep 
going over and over these things in dozens of different forums.



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