RE: Your objection - List Owner
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'" <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: Your objection - List Owner
- From: J* S* <J*@stdc.govt.nz>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:33:22 +1300
I thought all pumpkin growers are good looking (except in Australia of
course).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Nepereny [SMTP:MikeN@optiosoftware.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 1998 03:42
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: RE: Your objection - List Owner
>
> Duncan,
>
> I don't think suggesting the group try and limit it's public postings
> to
> appropriate material would qualify you as an a**hole. Excessive emails
> use up server resources. Once you retrieve your emails from the mail
> server, these documents are stored on your local system. This is a
> waste
> of disk space. You need to manually delete each one from the 'Inbox'
> and
> then the 'Deleted' folders to free up this space. This is a waste of
> time. I have suggested before using some sort of message
> prioritization
> scheme and still believe in this.
>
> As this list grows ( as I am sure it will ) a natural extension might
> be
> the use of a chat room. There are many out there, some of which have
> gardening themes. For those of you who have never used one, it
> basically
> allows you to 'chat' online in real time to one or more other users at
> a
> time. I am sure it would be a kick for many to be able to 'chat'
> online
> with some of the heavy hitters of this group. It's the next best thing
> to a phone call (without the cost) and you can send pictures to each
> other as well. The software is free and can be downloaded from the
> service's web page. All we would have to do is agree upon which chat
> room to use and let things progress from there.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> P.S. Don't be too hard on Mike and Carolyn. I know them personally and
> they are great people. Good looking too.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Duncan McAlpine [SMTP:mcalpin@eskimo.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 1998 5:38 PM
> > To: GBPUMPKIN; pumpkins@mallorn.com
> > Subject: Re: Your objection - List Owner
> >
> > I would recommend deleting the files. This is a fun mailing list
> and
> > it
> > does get out of scope but I have been on other mailing list where
> the
> > list owner is a total A..hole and I will try and not to act this way
> > on
> > this mailing list. I might get mad...but I think you all have seen
> > me
> > in my ups and downs. Just have fun and read the messages or delete
> > them. If you don't like reading the out of scope single messages, I
> > would recommend signing on the digest format.
> >
> > Thanks you George for your two cents.
> > --
> > Perennials to Alpines see these nurseries online:
> > Heronswood - http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/heronswood
> > Mt. Tahoma - http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/rick
> >
> >
> >
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