Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:55:57 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Vanagon List Moderator-let's get things underway!
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take the example of asking for computer advice........
as long as it's announced right in the subject line 'NVC'..........
I see no problem.
And I would really like people to feel that they have somewhere to turn to
for help with such a thing as a computer problem......
with 'their buddies' on this list. A community of help thing, you know. Some
people don't have anyone to ask for computer advice other than their friends
in this community.
As for anyone getting tweaked out that there are say, 60 posts in a day, or
30 posts on whatever subject.....
all I can say is ..........oh please..........just take what works for you,
and ignore the rest.
If you make any attempt to 'take on' everything that hits your
inbox.........you ( the generic 'you' .......no one specific ) ..........
you're gonna be in a LOT of trouble.......because it is just plain not
possible, evidently...........to avoid fluff, vapid postings, spam, etc.
etc. in this over-connected and too electronic world.
If a body can't deal with that overwhelm easily.........it would behoove
them to learn how to, cause there is no sign that we will not just get
bombarded more and more and more via the connected world. I never get out of
the blue sales call much anymore, but if I do......I am rid of them in 5
seconds. Gotta take care of yourself........and that means learning to
easily chop off fluff input, and with no guilt about it.
Now Lexus is going to have in-car messages , from Lexus and Toyota, in some
of their new Lexus models.........sheesh.........doesn't look like it's ever
going to let up or stop........overwhelming input , so we need to, for our
own sanity, learn how to delete it, or ignore it, frequently and easily
So just ignore the posts you don't like. It's easy !
I automatically ignore or delete hundreds of posts a day without even
thinking about it.
No where on anyone's computer or email program does it say 'You must absorb
and deal with every last thing that hits your inbox.'
Anyone thinking that would just go crazy.
Take what works for you, ignore the rest.
alphabetize your inbox, ( that's how I do it anyway ) and delete old stuff
40 emails at a time. If someone doesn't know how to select a long list of
emails........to delete them all in one shot, instead of individually, just
ask. With some 4,000 emails in my inbox I'm due to spend about 10 minutes
deleting old ones 40, 60, and 100 at a time, every day, from now on, "
indefinitely- forever" even.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Bus Depot" <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: Vanagon List Moderator-let's get things underway!
>> people are using the vanagon list as a substitute for
>> google Got a virus? Email the vanagon list. Have a problem
>> with popups? email the vanagon list. Know someone whoes
>> charity needs promoting? Email the vanagon list. Its gotten
>> kind of out of control.
>
>> i must strongly put in my own personal protest
>> at making THIS list a totally tech list, without any regard for
>> the community conversations most of us have enjoyed
>> throughout the years.
>
>
> There is a middle ground between these two extremes. This list has always
> been a community of sorts, and topics have always been tolerated or even
> encouraged that had only the vaguest connection to Vanagons - maybe they
> were about camping, travel, a Vanagon-like vehicle, or so on. It's kept
> things interesting and diverse, and I for one enjoy the little diversions.
> But the point is, for the most part, the posts have had at least a vague
> connection to Vanagons in some manner. What we're seeing now is posts that
> are completely out of left field. One person is using the list to solicit
> donations to his favorite charity, another for computer advice, and so on.
> As well intentioned as they may be, this is the wrong forum for such
> topics.
> I think most of us would agree that there should be at least some remote
> relevance to Vanagons in posts to a Vanagon list. You can say that
> solicitng charity donations or asking for computer advice is outside the
> scope of this list, without going to the other extreme of pronouncing it a
> "totally tech list" (which it never has been).
>
> - Ron Salmon
> The Bus Depot, Inc.
> www.busdepot.com
> (215) 234-VWVW
>
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