AMEN!

Mr. BZ-& now back to our regularly scheduled dead horse beating

On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:59 PM, B Feddish wrote:

> Wow, we're beating the crap out of a dead horse here....
>
> The bottom line is this for me, and probably for others. I sit in
> front of
> my computer 10 hours a day, so do others. An email comes in, I see it
> immediately upon receiving it. If it's work related I can act on
> it, if it's
> personal, it can wait, etc. but I read everything, including
> Vanagon posts.
> I can usually tell by the title or a quick glance at a Vanagon post
> whether
> I want to read it, save it my personal archives, reply to it or add
> one of
> my insightful and witty comments. The point is I've at least seen
> part of
> every email. If I send out a "Help! My gas line is leaking" I can
> guarantee
> you that within a few minutes someone will post a reply.  If that
> were Samba
> I'd have to wait until someone said, "gee, I think I'll log onto
> the web, go
> to the samba, go to the forums, go to the sub forums and see if
> there are
> any new gas leak posts." This is a living breathing lists and lots
> of stuff,
> besides this topic, are happening in real time. There's often a guy
> with his
> engine hanging halfway out with greasy hands typing a request/.
>
> Archive too slow? Who gives a crap. Ask the same damn question
> again. Who
> cares if someone snipes back "read the archives". The archives are
> slow and
> full of posts where people hit "reply" to a digest mode email.
> Forgetaboutem.
>
> Plus this email method has the distinct ability to fill peoples
> email boxes
> with 100 posts titled "RE: Who is the Manager of this list?" which
> quickly
> filters out the whiners. ;)
>
> Bryan