My take on this list differs from yours a bit. It seems to me that many of
the "worst offenders" for topic drift do seem to make an effort to update
the topic header. It is one of the things about this list that really
shines, IMHO.
I confess that I don't read much of the non-technical "chat" traffic. I just
do not have the time to read 300 Spridget emails per week. I know that I am
missing out on some of the community experience, but I can't help that. And
I am very appreciative of those who take the time to update the topic when
it takes a turn.
I've done two things that help me to manage the traffic. One was to
configure Outlook's Inbox Assistant to divert the Spridgets traffic to its
own box. The other is to set Outlook to sort the mail by subject, so I can
quickly skip an entire block of messages if they lose my interest.
With those two steps, I can read the entire list in about an hour a week,
which is unfortunately about all the time I have to spare for it.
Tom Zuchowski
'61 Bugeye
Clemmons, NC
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Corry <corry@iol.ie>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, June 26, 1999 4:51 AM
Subject: [No LBC] Warning:- on Soapbox - Wow! 250+ e-mails.
>Hi Listers,
>
>Been away for a few days, and I find I have now more than 250 e-mails
>to read, (not all are from this list) and some possibly, to respond to. As
I
>started working through the backlog, a number of thoughts occured to me.
>
>Now, I am going to enjoy catching up, no less than I separately enjoy
>trawlling back through the Spridgets archive area. With what limited
>spare/quality time I have ("Yes, Dear, I will fix that
>door/drain/clock/etc.etc",
>"Yes Son, you can't load what? I'll be there in a minute etc.etc", you get
>the
>picture), I draw a huge amount of sheer enjoyment from the quick-witted,
>very helpful, informative and (mostly) courtious e-mails posted here. And
>I do actually like to observe the few verbal skirmishs that take place!
>
>I thing it so amusing to find that the "Subject" heading, can run for a
long
>time without any amendment or change, while the body of the mesage can
>move to a quite different subject, and may even not be about the list
subject
>at all. I can appreciate though, that there may be others, whose time is
more
>limited, or who are more stressed-out than me, who would not feel so happy
>about this. That "Montana Bob" syndrome, perhaps?
>
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