Unsubcribing from Lists

"Simon Coulter" <shc@flybynight.com.au> wrote:
 
> There are two things that kill mailing lists; inactivity and volume.
> Volume me is  tolerated if the quality of the information is worth 
> the effort.  MIDRANGE-L generates 80 odd items per day.

It takes me about an hour to go through the mail per day.
If I do it during work time I am not doing what I am paid to do.
If I do it during my own time I have to find this hour from a 
fairly busy schedule, not always possible.


> Once the noise threshold exceeds the quality level people drop off.
> They simply can't be bothered to sift through the dross for the few
> (very few) grains of gold.   

In fact I delete many messages at the 'Heading' level often wondering
if there is something interesting I am removing.

Personally I dont reply to messages if I have seen someone else already
reply.  This means I go thru the messages in LRFR (last received, first
read) order.

I also avoid chit-chat although I can see the human relationship and
networking and plain old fun of it.  (Really comes down to what the list
is used for.)  I use it for HELP even if it turns out to be something 
stupid like my last message about WinNT (reboot the PC) (to which I had
no responses), I assume not many AS400 are connected to WinNT PCs.

Still as I get more expert at e-mail I cull the messages and get the
time required down to 15-20 mins, but then what is the point of getting
80 messages if I simply hit the delete button on 60 of them (before
reading) its rather pointless, hence unsubscribing.



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