You know, I did not want to get involved in this discussion. But the words "stupid" and "list member" should not be in the same sentence! You could have found a better way of saying what you said. Someone elses research abilities (or lack of) should not determine the outcome of this situation. Maybe it is those with lesser research abilities or knowledge who could benefit from messages going directly to the list rather than only to an individual. If this list is in place to help eachother, how are we helping them if they are not given the opportunity to tap into more information? I have changed my opinion since this discussion began. I believe that the list members should have the option of deleting messages with a subject line of something that they are not interested in rather than possibly missing out on useful information. It's not that hard to hit the delete button! I know, "Reply to All" is not all that difficult either, but I vote for message replies to go to the entire group. I do hope that the moderator is listening to ALL of the opinions and taking them into consideration. Julie Saltz ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Lee Hearl" <glh@naxs.com> To: <TNWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [TNWASHIN-L] Continuing the discussion on automatic reply! > Anyone who is too stupid to determine what is useful to other list members > and decide to whom it should be sent isn't much of a researcher. I > administer several lists and I give my members credit for their > intelligence on the matter. > This ends my involvement in this discussion... last message.... > G. Lee Hearl > Authentic Appalachian Storyteller > Abingdon, Va. > > > ==== TNWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Visit Washington County TNGenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/ > Tour Jonesborough TN at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncjones/ >
I totally agree with you Julie. Rudeness has not place on this list. Unless the information is there for all of the list to see, we will have no idea whether any of it is relevent to our research or not. Delete is easy. Using information which has been sent, offlist, to only one person, is impossible and of no use to the rest of us. All but one of my many lists has replies go to all of the members. There is always a lot of information which is not about my families, but with good subject lines, I don't have to go through all of the messages and just delete those I don't need. I too, hope the list moderator will consider changing this so that we can have discussions and start truly sharing our information with the whole group. Jane Unger julie saltz <rjctds@jtt.net> wrote: You know, I did not want to get involved in this discussion. But the words "stupid" and "list member" should not be in the same sentence! You could have found a better way of saying what you said. Someone elses research abilities (or lack of) should not determine the outcome of this situation. Maybe it is those with lesser research abilities or knowledge who could benefit from messages going directly to the list rather than only to an individual. If this list is in place to help eachother, how are we helping them if they are not given the opportunity to tap into more information? I have changed my opinion since this discussion began. I believe that the list members should have the option of deleting messages with a subject line of something that they are not interested in rather than possibly missing out on useful information. It's not that hard to hit the delete button! I know, "Reply to All" is not all that difficult either, but I vote for message replies to go to the entire group. I do hope that the moderator is listening to ALL of the opinions and taking them into consideration. Julie Saltz ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Lee Hearl" To: Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [TNWASHIN-L] Continuing the discussion on automatic reply! > Anyone who is too stupid to determine what is useful to other list members > and decide to whom it should be sent isn't much of a researcher. I > administer several lists and I give my members credit for their > intelligence on the matter. > This ends my involvement in this discussion... last message.... > G. Lee Hearl > Authentic Appalachian Storyteller > Abingdon, Va. > > > ==== TNWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Visit Washington County TNGenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/ > Tour Jonesborough TN at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncjones/ > ==== TNWASHIN Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send request to TNWASHIN-L-request@rootsweb.com or TNWASHIN-D-request@rootsweb.com with only the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. Hoot Owl Hollow NurseryNew Marshfield OH 45766740-664-2409 http://www.hootowlhollow.com --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.
I would appreciate it if the list moderator would get in touch with me privately. Or, could someone tell me how to get in touch with the moderator? Sadly, someone felt that it was appropriate to send me (personally and unsigned) a personally insulting flame in response to my innocent contribution to this discussion. I would like to forward that email to the moderator. -----Original Message----- From: julie saltz [mailto:rjctds@jtt.net] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:38 PM To: TNWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNWASHIN-L] Continuing the discussion on automatic reply! You know, I did not want to get involved in this discussion. But the words "stupid" and "list member" should not be in the same sentence! You could have found a better way of saying what you said. Someone elses research abilities (or lack of) should not determine the outcome of this situation. Maybe it is those with lesser research abilities or knowledge who could benefit from messages going directly to the list rather than only to an individual. If this list is in place to help eachother, how are we helping them if they are not given the opportunity to tap into more information? I have changed my opinion since this discussion began. I believe that the list members should have the option of deleting messages with a subject line of something that they are not interested in rather than possibly missing out on useful information. It's not that hard to hit the delete button! I know, "Reply to All" is not all that difficult either, but I vote for message replies to go to the entire group. I do hope that the moderator is listening to ALL of the opinions and taking them into consideration. Julie Saltz ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Lee Hearl" <glh@naxs.com> To: <TNWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [TNWASHIN-L] Continuing the discussion on automatic reply! > Anyone who is too stupid to determine what is useful to other list members > and decide to whom it should be sent isn't much of a researcher. I > administer several lists and I give my members credit for their > intelligence on the matter. > This ends my involvement in this discussion... last message.... > G. Lee Hearl > Authentic Appalachian Storyteller > Abingdon, Va. > > > ==== TNWASHIN Mailing List ==== > Visit Washington County TNGenWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/ > Tour Jonesborough TN at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncjones/ > ==== TNWASHIN Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send request to TNWASHIN-L-request@rootsweb.com or TNWASHIN-D-request@rootsweb.com with only the word unsubscribe in the body of the message.