Re: Proposal for Improving our Active Club

[jcadman@ix.netcom.com (Jeffrey Cadman)]

I'm all for leaving the list just as it is.  I've been on since March 
and I've learned alot by just 'listening', taking these discussions 
private just provides a dating service for hooking people up!

Besides, everyone is nice and agreeable and friendly here; I'd really 
love to start policing everyone, sending angry messages to people I've 
never met.  Sure, that's alot easier than than deleting the stupid 
things!

You wrote: 
>
>I've been on the mailing list for several months now and find this 
club to 
>be fun and worthwhile.  It's incredible how active it is which is good 
since 
>you get a lot of feedback and bad because lots of the info doesn't 
always 
>pertain to you.  Lately, I've been getting 75-125 messages a day which 
is 
>becoming unmanageable!  I'm sure that others are having the same 
problem.
>
>I'd like to propose the following to facilitate the enjoyment and 
usefulness 
>of the club.
>
>1.  When replying to someone, consider whether you should reply 
directly to 
>that person or the group as a whole.
>
>2.  If you find someone has sent a reply to the group instead of 
directly to 
>the originator which adds no value to you and/or is idle chatter, send 
an 
>email directly to that person informing them of your lack of interest 
in 
>their content.
>
>
>By using our judgement in the above, our club will grow both in the 
number 
>of subscribers and in utility.
>
>Please let me know whether how you all feel about this.  If most of 
you 
>concur, maybe these suggestions could be emailed to every new member 
when 
>they sign up.
>
>Regards,
>glenn
>
>