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[brianm@earendel.org (brianm@earendel.org)]

Yeah Yeah Yeah ..
and for the poeple who hate it
ME TOO! post :-)
Brian
2.0L topless bunny
88 16v white
90 90q20v
91 VFR750F ... everybody needs an 11 sec for less than $3k now.. :-(

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, T. Reed wrote:

> I haven't been here as long as many of you (only about 2.5 years), but I
> do agree that the list has changed.. there is a lot more socializing and
> non-vw discussion.. perhaps the average car know-how of the group has
> gone down slightly.
>
> Personally, it doesn't bother me a bit. I only read the threads I'm
> interested in (due to time constraints) and my mail software
> automatically sorts all e-mail from the scirocco list in to a seperate
> incoming folder. Even if the list were all tech there would still be
> threads about things like mk1 drum brakes that don't interest me at all so
> I would skip them.
>
> I suppose if a large number of people objected to how the list is now, we
> could set up two seperate lists i.e. scirocco-l-tech and scirocco-l-talk
> and instruct people to direct friendly discussion to the talk list and vw
> stuff to the tech list. Then people who only wanted the tech stuff could
> unsubscribe from the talk, and vice versa. Or people like me who find both
> types valuable could remain subscribed to both.
>
> The problem with this approach is that inevitably people (such as new
> listers) would send things to the wrong list and each time an angry thread
> of "post it to the talk list, not here" would ensue.
>
> Not to mention that many threads involve both tech stuff -and- friendly
> chat. You couldn't send messages to both lists because then the people
> subscribed to both lists would get two copies..
>
> Anyway.. my suggestion for now is to live with it. We all have to throw
> away the "Life and Arts" section of the newspaper even though we never
> read it. Every day some idiot comes up and starts yapping about their day
> and how much they don't like somebody. We don't care, so we just tune them
> out. Do the same with the messages you don't care about on the list.
>
> Myself, I never actually delete any messages because they can be useful
> later. I have my own list archive consisting of about 200 mb of list
> e-mail that is everything I have received to date. More than once this has
> helped me out of a jam when I needed to know a trick to remove something
> or a part number for an obscure item and it was 5 in the morning when no
> listers were up so there would be little chance of an immediate,
> helpful response.
>
> Another suggestion for dealing with the volume of mail is to get a
> threaded mailreader. By that I mean a mail program that sorts messages
> based on title. Put it in thread mode, delete the threads you don't want,
> then go back to 'order of messages received' mode and read away.
>
> The kind of list mail that bothers me even more than socializing or
> questions about someone's minivan is the kind that is just bitching about
> the socializing or minivan question.
>
> My 2 cents
>
> -Toby
>
>
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