please be considered - postings to the reflector

[Andrey Stoev]

Guys,

 

I would like to ask everybody to be a little bit considered when starting new threads on the reflector!

Please use a convention which would allow for automatic sorting of the emails by the email client - it is very easy and it doesn't require much effort!

For instance, please insert in the beginning of your email subject line the elecraft product which is actually the subject of the thread. Something like this: "K2 - Question about the IF amp alignment" or "K3 - shipping dates?" or "K2, K3 : Performance comparison"

This will help everybody to organize hundreds of emails per day coming from this reflector.

Please understand - there are many people out there that are interested only in a specific product and it is very hard to manually sort thru all of the emails.

With the release of the K3 the reflector became very busy but not everybody is interested in K3 (for instance I have no interest whatsoever in the K3 but I would like to read all of the K2 posts, the XV posts, KAT/KPA, etc).

If everybody is using such Subject line convention it would be very easy to setup email rules so for instance all of the emails regarding K2 are moved to the corresponding K2 folder and all of the K3 post are moved to the K3 folder or Trash folder, the XV posts will go to the XV folder, etc. I am sure everybody will benefit from a little bit more organized traffic on the refflector.

Thanks in advance!


73
de Andrey, AE1Z
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[Julian, G4ILO]

I seem to remember Eric asking this very same thing only a few days
ago. The problem is it is not a normal thing to do and people are
fallible - they just don't remember until after they've hit the Send
button (if then.) I don't think there is anything you can do about it.

Thom and I set up Elecraft message boards at Zerobeat Forums to
provide a solution to this issue - separate boards for each Elecraft
product. However, it does require a critical mass of people -
including those with the answers, as well as the ones with the
questions - to join  and participate if it is to be actually useful.
The message boards are there, the rest is up to the users.
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On 10/14/07, Andrey Stoev <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I would like to ask everybody to be a little bit considered when starting new threads on the reflector!
>
> Please use a convention which would allow for automatic sorting of the emails by the email client - it is very easy and it doesn't require much effort!
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[Dave, G4AON]

Maybe in the future there will be a facility to post from a web page (as
per forums) and have a drop down subject box with K1/KX1/K2/K3/whatever.
In the mean time, keeping postings at a reasonable level and Elecraft
related would help everyone. I feel that spreading the knowledge across
several forums is counter productive as it dilutes the knowledge base.

73 Dave, G4AON
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[Thom LaCosta]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Dave G4AON wrote:

>  I feel that spreading the knowledge across several forums is
> counter productive as it dilutes the knowledge base.

Hmmm, you might have a point there....perhaps ARRL could send bulletins oo a
single frequency, only once and using only one mode.  THe advantage is that
there would be only one place to find the information.

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[Andrey Stoev]

> Guess you missed the directive from Wayne/Eric earlier in the week
> saying the same thing.

Sorry...I aplogize to everybody for the QRM than (I hope it is lost in the
already high noise floor caused by the "K3 shipping status" subject)...I
guess I did miss it, trying to sort  the 30+ emails per day coming from the
reflectror just by reading the subject lines... (and I can't read all of the
emails the same day btw. so if I miss just a few days than I have well over
a hundred emails to soft thru - that's why I politely asked everybody to
assist an automated sorting.

73,
de Andrey, AE1Z

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[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ]

Guys,

Julian is correct, please place [K3], [K2] etc. as the first item on
your subject lines for ALL rig/product specific postings from now on.

We are -extremely- busy focusing on K3 shipments etc. After the dust
clears (withing the next month or so) we'll revisit the reflector/web
page/forum organization issues. Of course we want to make it as easy as
possible for everyone to get the information they need. :-)

In the mean time, please also remember that this list is our primary
method of both getting feedback from customers and for communicating
with you. We occasionally look at and post to some of the other forums
out there, but we can not monitor them or respond to all questions
posted on those lists. We need a single place to focus on, and that's
the primary reason for the current email list structure. Proliferating
more parallel forums only serves to fragment the Elecraft community and
to make it impossible for us to easily communicate with everyone.

Lastly, we DO have a web readable version of this list that allows you
to just peruse the subject lines and to click on the ones you wish to
read. ( http://www.elecraft.com/elist.html ) If you wish to read the
list in that manner, and still stay subscribed so you can post, just set
your email options to 'no mail delivery' on your personal Elecraft list
preferences page. Go to
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft  and scroll to the
bottom of that page. The last option asks you to enter your subscribed
list email address and click on 'edit options'.

Please be patient with us, we'll be working with everyone to simplify
things here as soon as we can catch or breath. (You do want us to focus
on getting your K3s to you, don't you?  ;-)

73,  Eric   WA6HHQ
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Julian G4ILO wrote:

> I seem to remember Eric asking this very same thing only a few days
> ago. The problem is it is not a normal thing to do and people are
> fallible - they just don't remember until after they've hit the Send
> button (if then.) I don't think there is anything you can do about it.
>
> Thom and I set up Elecraft message boards at Zerobeat Forums to
> provide a solution to this issue - separate boards for each Elecraft
> product. However, it does require a critical mass of people -
> including those with the answers, as well as the ones with the
> questions - to join  and participate if it is to be actually useful.
> The message boards are there, the rest is up to the users.
>  

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