Bernie--I have a win/win solution (again)
Trish Binder
don't read all my e-mail.
A person you don't want to receive from can be filtered out. Maybe
somebody from OPN can send us the instructions about how to do that.
I wouldn't filter him out, but you can if you want to.
Trish
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, lauradel collins wrote:
> Here, I think, is a case where Bernie could have used a smiley to indicate
> sarcasm (re: annoying people).
>
> Anyway, I, for one, haven't felt there was any spamming on either the
> controvery or activitsts list by Bernie. There are times where the list
> would have "died" if it wasn't for Bernie starting up topics.
>
> While I get pretty annoyed by spam and occasionally annoyed by junk mail, I
> also use my delete key. For at least a month prior to the election, I found
> one poster to respond to every posting about Nader on *both* lists with the
> exact same response, usually quoting the entire article he was responding
> to. To my mind, *this* was spam. My solution? Delete key for the 4-10
> postings per day. No problem. I considered using a mail filter to
> automatically send this persons mail to the trash, but decided against it
> (in hopes he'd come up with something NEW to say).
>
> Frankly, I've missed Bernie on these lists. Agree with him or not, he's
> often given me some things to think about, and often given me something to
> laugh about all day long, for which I am grateful. His pokes have been
> barbless, while I've seen people write things that have been just plain
> mean, even vicious.
>
> Anyway, I'll miss him, if he doesn't come back.
>
> lauradel
>
> --On Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:01 PM -0800 CISCAP <cis...@efn.org>
> wrote:
>
> > At 3:38 PM 11/30/0, roy g biv wrote:
> >
> > ...snip....now that they have deigned to reveal the cause and i am
> >> aware of it, maybe i can soon return to annoy you way too much.
> >>
> >
> > Bernie,
> >
> > Why do you want to annoy me? I'm not just some name on a computer screen,
> > I'm an actual living person. I want to learn about local activism on the
> > Local Activist list--is that such an outlandish request that you have to
> > pledge to "annoy me way too much" as soon as you can?
> >
> > I suggested a perfect win/win solution to you years ago: set up your own
> > e-mail list to send all your stuff out to; that way, people who want to
> > can get your stuff, and I wouldn't have to sift thru all your e-mails
> > about non-local activist stuff to get to the e-mail I need to access for
> > my work.
> >
> >
> > Please, please, consider this idea again.
> >
> > Scott Miksch
> > CISCAP staff
> > 485-8633
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
David Oaks - Support Coalition International
>
>Maybe I'm old fashioned, but why can't Bernie just use some
>self-discipline, and post local activist info to the Local Activist list?
>Or, create his own list to send stuff not related to local activism out to?
>
>en solidaridad,
>
>Scott Miksch
>not speaking for CISCAP per se
I agree. Think positive Bernie, many people might join your e-mail
list and read your posts!
I think some folks such as Bernie and Michael P suspect that if they
created their own e-mail list then only a handful of people would
ever join it.
Only one way to find out.....
David Oaks - Support Coalition International
>Michael P "owns" several well-populated lists of which one contains
>local_a...@efn.org because several subscribers to that Eugene-based
>list think local activism encompasses activism from outside the
>Eugene locality
>
>Cheers
>
>MichaelP
Michael, how about offering the option to people on the local
activists e-mail list to join your e-mail list, or not, AS THEY SO
CHOOSE?
Also, in all of your posts I never remember seeing you include an
easy way for people to subscribe -- or unsubscribe -- to your e-mail
list.
I run an e-mail human rights list with over 2,500 folks -- all of
whom want to be on the list. My humble advice, is that one needs to
include information about how to join a list.
I guess Paul Harrison -- who owns local_activists list -- has
apparently made the decision not to moderate this list, so others
have kind of taken it on as their own.
I once asked if anyone on this list wanted to work together on some
new local activists discussion lists -- so I'll ask again... if
anyone's left on here. I know Scott is interested.
> =================
MichaelP
local_a...@efn.org because several subscribers to that Eugene-based
list think local activism encompasses activism from outside the
Eugene locality
Cheers
MichaelP
CISCAP
Trish--good to see you tonite.
I too read Bernie's postings, hoping that he has once again contributed to
the local activist scene--like he did when he transcribed flyers posted to
the free speech wall down near New Day. But so often, they weren't about
local activism, which is what I believe the Local Activist list is about.
I am aware of the possibility of filtering out individual's e-mailings,
although I don't know how to do it. But I cring at the idea of doing
this--what if Bernie has something to say about local activism, and I never
read it because of a filter?
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but why can't Bernie just use some
self-discipline, and post local activist info to the Local Activist list?
Or, create his own list to send stuff not related to local activism out to?
Why is it up to me to basically censor him from my version of the Local
Activist list?
en solidaridad,
Scott Miksch
not speaking for CISCAP per se