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John AE5X

Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?

I don't know why so many people insist on making use of this list in the most difficult way possible - by receiving individual emails or via the daily summary email...

A far easier way is to just look periodically (daily, hourly) at the list of messages here:
http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2017-August/date.html

and click on the topics that are of interest to you. Turn off the email delivery function of list postings entirely - your "Delete" key will thank you.

John AE5X
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>It's not easy to manage, especially with the increasing number of products
all lumped in.
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Don Wilhelm

Re: Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?

John,

Actually, I consider using individual emails the easiest way to deal
with the Elecraft reflector as well as any other email lists and my
subscriptions to Yahoo groups.

I detest signing onto each message group using a browser.
My email client (I use Thunderbird), will sort the emails from each
group into individual folders I have created for each group (Yes, you
have to use filters to do that). The messages flow into their own
folder leaving my inbox clear of all but personal messages and gives me
my own "digest" of the recent email messages for each group. I can deal
with them as I have time.

Recent suggestions to move this list to a forum style would cause me to
"go away" - sorting through a forum style is cumbersome and not
productive IMHO.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 8/19/2017 9:00 AM, John AE5X wrote:

> I don't know why so many people insist on making use of this list in the most difficult way possible - by receiving individual emails or via the daily summary email...
>
> A far easier way is to just look periodically (daily, hourly) at the list of messages here:
> http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2017-August/date.html
>
> and click on the topics that are of interest to you. Turn off the email delivery function of list postings entirely - your "Delete" key will thank you.
>
> John AE5X
> http://ae5x.blogspot.com/
> _______________________
>
>> It's not easy to manage, especially with the increasing number of products
> all lumped in.
> ____________________________________________________________
> 3 Common Foods Surgeons Are Now Calling "Death Foods"
> Nucific
> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/599836a050160369f618dst01vuc
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
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Robert Nobis - N7RJN

Re: Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?

Hi Don,

I do the same thing with individual emails from the various Yahoo groups that I subscribe to. Email filtering is the key to effectively managing messages

Bob Nobis
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> On Aug 21, 2017, at 17:18, Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Actually, I consider using individual emails the easiest way to deal with the Elecraft reflector as well as any other email lists and my subscriptions to Yahoo groups.
>
> I detest signing onto each message group using a browser.
> My email client (I use Thunderbird), will sort the emails from each group into individual folders I have created for each group (Yes, you have to use filters to do that). The messages flow into their own folder leaving my inbox clear of all but personal messages and gives me my own "digest" of the recent email messages for each group. I can deal with them as I have time.
>
> Recent suggestions to move this list to a forum style would cause me to "go away" - sorting through a forum style is cumbersome and not productive IMHO.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 8/19/2017 9:00 AM, John AE5X wrote:
>> I don't know why so many people insist on making use of this list in the most difficult way possible - by receiving individual emails or via the daily summary email...
>> A far easier way is to just look periodically (daily, hourly) at the list of messages here:
>> http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2017-August/date.html
>> and click on the topics that are of interest to you. Turn off the email delivery function of list postings entirely - your "Delete" key will thank you.
>> John AE5X
>> http://ae5x.blogspot.com/
>> _______________________
>>> It's not easy to manage, especially with the increasing number of products
>> all lumped in.
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> 3 Common Foods Surgeons Are Now Calling "Death Foods"
>> Nucific
>> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/599836a050160369f618dst01vuc
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> Elecraft mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
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Mike Watterson (K3MAW)

Re: Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?

In reply to this post by Don Wilhelm

Don,

I do something very similar with my gmail account. I don't use an email
client, just the web interface. Having the Elecraft emails its own folder
makes it very easy to scan the subjects for topics of interest.

Mike - K3MAW

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote:

> John,
>
> Actually, I consider using individual emails the easiest way to deal with
> the Elecraft reflector as well as any other email lists and my
> subscriptions to Yahoo groups.
>
> I detest signing onto each message group using a browser.
> My email client (I use Thunderbird), will sort the emails from each group
> into individual folders I have created for each group (Yes, you have to use
> filters to do that). The messages flow into their own folder leaving my
> inbox clear of all but personal messages and gives me my own "digest" of
> the recent email messages for each group. I can deal with them as I have
> time.
>
> Recent suggestions to move this list to a forum style would cause me to
> "go away" - sorting through a forum style is cumbersome and not productive
> IMHO.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 8/19/2017 9:00 AM, John AE5X wrote:
>
>> I don't know why so many people insist on making use of this list in the
>> most difficult way possible - by receiving individual emails or via the
>> daily summary email...
>>
>> A far easier way is to just look periodically (daily, hourly) at the
>> list of messages here:
>> http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/elecraft/2017-August/date.html
>>
>> and click on the topics that are of interest to you. Turn off the email
>> delivery function of list postings entirely - your "Delete" key will thank
>> you.
>>
>> John AE5X
>> http://ae5x.blogspot.com/
>> _______________________
>>
>> It's not easy to manage, especially with the increasing number of products
>>>
>> all lumped in.
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> 3 Common Foods Surgeons Are Now Calling "Death Foods"
>> Nucific
>> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/599836a050160369f618dst01vuc
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> Elecraft mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:[hidden email]
>>
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>> Message delivered to [hidden email]
>>
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Michael Babineau-2

Re: Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?

In reply to this post by John AE5X

Drew et al :

The only solution that I can think of that comes close to meeting the criteria you mentioned is perhaps Groups.IO. Many Ham Radio related Yahoo Groups have migrated to Groups.IO (including one that I own) and
it has a number of options including email, email digest as well as web-only and it has threading based on topic to make facilitate following a conversation.
One nice feature is the ability to create sub-groups that members of the main group may choose to subscribe to, which is great for reducing the load on a busy group that may have
discussions on topics that not all members are interested in. Also it has Wiki cababilites as well as storage for photos and files and the usual calendar with notification options and polling as well.
The plus over Yahoo is that their search capabilty actually works properly !

Migration from Yahoo to Groups.IO is painless but I suspect that it would take a fair bit of work to migrate from a list-server such as this group over to Groups.IO and I am not sure you could preserve the
existing postiing history very easily, which is a downside.

Cheers

Michaell VE3WMB

>From: Drew AF2Z <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?
>Date: August 21, 2017 at 3:37:38 PM GMT-4
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>Main difference to me is that with mail reader software I can use keyboard exclusively. Web forums require mouse pointing/scrolling/clicking which gets on my nerves very quickly. But for some people the mouse is easier.

>The only solution is a good software solution that combines listserv with forum. This still does not exist. In the meantime there's no point trying to convince people that their particular preference must be wrong.

>73,
>Drew
>AF2Z
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