Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:34:03 +0100
From: "karl.maton" <karl.maton-AT-pop.ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple postings


> I am quite happy to try to cut down the number of posting, though somewhat
> puzzled that this is a problem for you. Does it really cost more than a fraction
> of a penny to read 8 messages, for example, rather than 2? And was it really the
> case that a swathe of people unsubscribed the last time Kent, myself, and your
> own good self had a list ding-dong? Surely not.
>
> Not to worry, I am off to the poluted waters of our English coast for a while.
> Must dash. "Summer for the people and their favourite islands ..."

Luck ol you!

Actually, I sent the posting in a huff, and was not my usual calm and zenlike
self.  Plus, I have all sorts of problems with this blasted email problem and the
server and got wound up when I sat there for five minutes several times in a row,
and each time all it was doing was downloading messages sent a minute or two apart,
all responding to the same email message.

As for the unsubscribing.  I do recall it.  It wasn't so much our ding-dong (a nice
description), but the zillion messages sent during it, again most of which were as
I describe.

I wouldn't want to stop or discourage anyone from posting ... this is one of the
few listservs I'm not which is currently active.  It's just sometimes one can get
tired of reading
Bloggs Re: whatever 7.21 a.m.
Bloggs Re: whatever 7.22 a.m
and so on.  Indeed, I've a feeling that this discourages others from reading them.
One can be tempted to bin the lot.

Anyway, have a nice time at the coast - try not to catch too many diseases!


With best wishes,

Karl

Karl Maton
School of Education, University of Cambridge

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Keats


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