P3D Re: Mailing lists

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:13 AM 3/31/99 , you wrote:
>>From: lnygren@xxxxxxx (Linda Nygren)
>>I agree with a few others here, in that I liked it much better when
>>everything was on the Big List, and one could pick and choose what to
>>read. I personally prefer _not_ to be in digest mode, so that it is 
>>easier to quickly delete some messages, read others, and save some for
>>future reference. 
>
>Then you have no problem!!!  Subscribing in all lists will get you
>all the messages, one at a time, and let you do whatever you please
>with them.  Where the messages are coming from should be of no 
>significance to you.  Why do you then like it *much better* if 
>everything is coming from the BIG LIST?

I don't know what Linda's answer would be, but for myself, I prefer the BIG
LIST because then everybody was seeing all the messages.  Sometimes someone
would respond to a topic they might not find interesting enough to
subscribe to a separate list for.  There was more interaction and more
discussion when everything was in one list.  Sometimes a topic in Sell-3D
starts a discussion, and then we have to move it to Photo-3D, which usually
completely stifles it.  There used to be a kind of interplay among topics,
where various discussions would spin off and return.

-pd


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