Re: ADMIN: Thanks

John,

I've only been on this list for a couple of months and think the message
contents are fantastic.  You do an excellent job of administrating it.  I
had no idea what you were talking about when you said you were going to
"campaign to lower the junk mail".
I've yet to find ANY in the messages I've received.  It's  like taking an
advance course in iris culture - I'm learning something new every day.

I did reply off-list to Walter & Kath concerning the loropetalum question
of mine, but thought it should have been included for all to read - Would a
reply to them be considered OT-CHAT and consequently sent off-list?

Mickey Corley
Bethany, OK      Zone 6/7



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>
        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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