Re: ADMIN: Welcome Message

I do and some days get rid of more than 60%. Of more concern should be all
the messages that are of personal nature or should be sent privately.

                    Thanks
                                Bob zone 5 where the JAs and LAs are really
kicking in!


----- Original Message -----
From: <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] ADMIN: Welcome Message


> John I. Jones wrote:
> >
> >  OT-PLANTS: other garden plants (not irises)
> >  OT-ART:    iris-motif art and craftwork
> >  OT-HUMOR:  iris-related humor
> >  OT-CHAT:   personal messages and conversation (consider taking it
> >  off-list!) OT-BIO:    introduction from a new subscriber (please
> >  follow with your name) ADMIN: list administration issues (reserved
> >  for the list owner)
>
>
> > We have recently lost two very valuable subscribers to iris-talk, ones
> > that have years and years of experience, specifically because of the
> > large amount of OT posts.
> >
> > I am going to begin a campaign to lower the amount of junk mail, any
> > help would be appreciated.
> >
> I am a long-time member of iris-talk, having joined it when it was iris-l,
and I am
> sorry to learn that two long-time members have decided to resign.
> I really don't understand why.  And, here are two reasons:
>
> 1. The traffic on the list has been extremely slow of late, like
> only fourteen messages today, June 26, 2000, as I write this at 6
> p.m. CDT.
>
> 2. OT's are legitimate categories, and those who resigned from
> the list knew this when they joined.  Very few of the OT's have not
> concerned some part of the plant world...like the loropetalum or
> daylily threads of today.  The only comletely OT thread I can think
> of lately concerned the one on the Model-T; none of the above do I
> consider 'junk.'  I learned something from every one of these. And, I
> bet all of us are guilty of an OT or two during our time on the list,
> even those who resigned.
>
> If a person has a problem with the OT's, I suggest they scan
> their entire mail file and immediately mark those OT's as delete
> files and never open them to begin with.  Of course, mail programs
> vary, so I don't know how others kill files they don't want to read.
>
> Simply said, hit delete on OT's if they bother you.
>
> Let the list roll on!
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
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