Forums vs. Listserves
Robt R Pries (Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:36:07 PST)
I tend to agree with Boyce and Jim. Unfortunately
providers often think they are doing you a favor by
blocking some messages. Often they do allow you to opt
out of their filters. I leave those filters turned off
and even though I get lots of unwanted mail my delete
key works well. Occassionally I open messages that are
ambiguous in their titles because I know not everyone
understands the value of a correct subject title.
--- "J.E. Shields" <jshields@indy.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I have to agree completely with Boyce. I find that
I simply don't bother
to look into web forums, ever. I guess I'm more of
an e-mail person, where
the information comes to me, than a web person,
where I have to go dig
around for it.
The internet connections I use, cable modem and
Earthlink dialup, allow you
to turn off their spam filters. I do that. I
instead use Mailwasher to
pre-screen my e-mails before they are downloaded.
You can delete the mail
you don't want to download using Mailwasher. You
can customize Mailwasher
to filter out by domain or by individual e-mail
address. It can be found at:
My advice: if your ISP is not giving you
satisfactory service, shop around!
Jim Shields
At 03:10 PM 2/14/2008 -0600, Boyce wrote:
........
Unfortunately I've not experienced the same
satisfaction with forums
that I've received from the PBS listserve. I think
the problem revolved
around the fact I had to login to yet another
application to see what
had been posted - over time it simply became too
cumbersome (sad but
true).
.........
I suggest focusing on fixing the part that is
broken.
Boyce Tankersley
Jim Shields USDA Zone 5
Shields Gardens, Ltd.
P.O. Box 92 WWW:
http://www.shieldsgardens.com/
Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA
Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free
1-866-449-3344 in USA
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