Maiden speech from an old man

[Mark Wieder]

Hermann-

Friday, July 25, 2014, 3:31:09 PM, you wrote:

>> [Scott wrote:] It goes both ways. Jacque (and Richard) have
>> explained how this is "sort of" possible.
> The collected mailing lists are one way but -- for me -- very
> nasty. I can read very fast, but it's also very hard to filter out
> unneeded quotes (and up to 10 lines of signatures).

<g> and I have a similar problem with all the stuff I'd like to ignore
on the web forum. I wouldn't be wild about having an rss feed into
this listserv for the same reason, although it's easier to set up kill
filters here.

>> [Richard H. wrote:] Listserves and usenet on the one hand, and
>> web fora on the other, are completely different creatures.

> No, some of the users are. It's sometimes just another kind of
> thinking, of being ready or not for changes.

Actually, they *are* completely different. And so require different
reflexes on the part of users in terms immediacy, archiving,
responsiveness, access and retrieval of previous information, etc.
I rarely venture onto the web forum, and when I do it's a pretty
shallow overview of recent activity in selected topics. Unfortunately
the engine contribution work takes place over there, so I have to
check in once in a while.

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-Mark Wieder
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