Actually, I've always been subscribed to get the non-digested form of the
listserv for as far back as I can remember. And I'm using gmail which
actually does a pretty good job of using the "-show quoted text-" to hide a
lot of the repeated/redundant text. Gmail also places messages that follow
a thread into a "collapse able" subject line in my inbox, so I don't have a
new subject entry for every message that is received... messages are placed
under the same subject header. As I've read new messages, it collapses and
compresses the entry under the subject header. However, there is still
quite a bit of redundant text for almost every message received.
And simpjkee makes an excellent point about posting attachments like
pictures.
Jake - Team A.I.
On 10/22/07, AZcachemeister <
azcachemeister@getnet.com> wrote:
>
> I would guess Jake must be opted for the digest format?
> I agree that posts quoting the entire thread can be overly long.
> The main problem is posters who have their EMail client set to add their
> reply AFTER the text they are replying to.
> Sometime it is good to have the material being addressed available,
> however.
> The same phenomenon can happen in forums as well.
>
> I see that the esteemed OP has added a reply that brings out the issue
> that I originally suspected he was really concerned with, that being the
> staleness of the 'news' items on the homepage. While the site owners are
> willing to add fresh news items to the site, WE, THE COMMUNITY must take the
> responsibility for writing them! Perhaps something as simple as a
> 'shout-out' to a local who is about to, or just passed a milestone? Perhaps
> something about a local event that cachers might be interested in, but is
> not well publicized? How about a 'trip report' on that really cool caching
> trip you took last month to...SOMEWHERE?
>
> Brian brings up some good points, but I have yet to see any really
> objectionable posts on this list, and I would expect to see the same
> restraint on an azgeocaching.com forum, if one should evolve.
>
> With that, I must 'vote' to maintain the status quo. I prefer to get each
> post in my EMail...to be read individually throughout the day.
>
> Cache On!
> Steve
>
> Jake Olson wrote:
>
> I vote for the forum.
>
> I'm tired of scrolling through 3 miles of text to get to the next message
> because people keep forwarding the complete conversation thread when they
> post a response.
>
> Jake - Team A.I.
>
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