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Re: Plea for my mailbox + other things

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Dear Elizabeth:
I enjoyed reading your email. I know from experience how frustrating it can be when you don't have internet access at home...even if it is just a temporary situation. I live in a very rural community where it has been very difficult for an Internet Service Provider to stay in business. I can relate.

Because of your personal need, I can understand your desires for economy, but in a virtual community... what one sees as economy may also be viewed by another as excess. 

After using email and listservs for over 10 years, I have developed some strategies that MAY work for you. If they don't, please accept my positive intent. I notice that you do use Hotmail, so you do know the basics of free web-based email.  

I have a suggestion that works very well for me and several other writers. Acquire a new email address just for this listserv. Using this method, you can free memory space on your main email address meant for business or private email.

There are several FREE web-based email services, such as Eudoramail.com, N2mail.com, etc. If you CHOOSE to join prolific listservs, such as SQFT, that generate several postings per day, I would suggest that you devote one email address just for that listserv. 

Then you don't even HAVE to check the mail at that webmail address EVERY day. I check mine on the weekend, and sort through the various threads over time...some subjects develop interestingly. I wouldn't notice that development if I didn't watch the subject threads.

After you acquire another email address,  you can unsubscribe from the listserv on the address that is getting overloaded. RESUBSCRIBE to the listserv at your new web-based email address. 

This can work well for you because we never have anything on the SQFT listserv that is of a private nature. The email conversations we have here do not need the level of security that proprietary business or personal emails may require.

During this time of email based viruses, I really appreciate the group's posting of specific topics in their subject field. 

Although well intended, there are concerns about the suggestion of the use of the "one per day posting" rule. Most concerns relate to the very core of the listserv experience. 

The major concern is that, if the "one per day posting" rule is followed, members could no longer list or follow the subject headings individually or appropriately, especially over time. 

The less specific the email subject headings, the more the chances increase for confused REPLY subject headings. 

The effect of the "one post per day" rule may nullify the very goal it means to acheive. 

For instance, I delete, without opening, many of the sqft emails that deal with subjects that I am not interested in or I have seen before on the listserv.
Using the "one post per day" methodology, the time I spend reading SQFT listserv emails will increase.

I will explain why. The number of emails that do not relate to their stated subject heading will increase. The subject that appears, in the email heading, will, in many cases, be something quite different. Following the "one posting per day" rule, I will open more emails.

I have experienced this "one posting per day" rule on other listservs. For me, it is very time-consuming.

Think of this listserv like a newspaper...throw out the part you know you don't want to read...or save the unread sections (emails) until you can read them. That is where the web-based email address helps...you can devote 4MB of memory to one listserv. That's a BUNCH of email.

I hope this explanation, discussion, and suggestion is accepted in the positive manner in which I intend it.

Have a great day,
;-)Sheryl
Southern border of Zone 6
---
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her
patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric
reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
-Richard Feynman



On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:45:06   Elizabeth Springer wrote:Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
Friends,
I know the gardening season is well underway, and you're all bubbling with enthusiasm, but could  y'all PLEASE limit your daily postings?  I am getting at times 50 messages a day, and a lot of them are from the same people. On the old listserv site we could get a digest form, but Listbot doesn't allow for this, and I'm getting overwhelmed by my mailbox! It's not that I don't love the enthusiasm, but I'm having to read my e-mail at work right now and time is limited.
>
Another listserv I'm on limits people to 1 posting a day, and we tend to write multiple subject messages. When I'm reading messages I sometimes take notes and then write my replies as one.
>
I don't want to raise any hackles out there, so ignore this if I've offended anyone........
>
>Meanwhile:
>
COULD BE TITLED: COMPANINON PLANTINGS:>
CORN:  I start it in peat pots in my backyard, then transplant it to my community plot. I grow "Early Sunglow" which only takes about 65 days and produces 1-2 ears per stalk. SNIP and then plant bush beans <SNIP> Last year I put in a few "Jack Be Little" pumpkin vines <SNIP> also put black plastic on the ground and planted the peat pots through it.

OVERPLANTING:  A lot of your plants CAN be started as transplants in peat pots, newspaper pots or other biodegradable stuff<SNIP> 

"No Dig, No Weed Gardening" by Raymond Poincelot gives <SNIP> get it from a library. Speaking of which, if you need any gardening book (including Mel's) 
and can't get if from your local library, ask about Interlibrary Loan service. This is very low cost and can often get you a book in several days.

RASPBERRIES: Has anyone grown them? <SNIP>

Hoping you're all having good gardening weather--SNIP

Lisa Springer
lspringer61@hotmail.com
Alexandria, VA  (Zone 7) 



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