Re: Techwr-l Web interface - am I the only one using it?

["Janice Gelb" <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com>]

> I'm always surprised when I read people complaining about OT posts
> flooding their mailboxes. I stopped receiving Techwr-l posts via e-mail a
> few years ago, 
[snip]

I also read through the web rather than receiving 
posts by email, but I don't buy that as a reason 
to accept numerous OT posts any more than I buy 
the other oft-cited rationale that "you can always 
delete them." I think that lists (and newsgroups 
and Yahoogroups and all similar groups) are most 
enjoyable/useful when they stick to the area that 
matches the reason that most people joined the 
list or group. The more OT posts we see, the less 
likely we are to want to slog through those to get 
to the real topics, whether through mail or through 
the web.

> 
> Instead I use the Web interface Eric and Deb provide at:
> 
> http://lists.raycomm.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=techwr-l
> 
> For anybody with browser access, I can't imagine a better setup. It keeps
> my Inbox from overflowing, and offers a high degree of control in viewing
> and responding to posts.
> 

I actually find the web interface a bit cumbersome to 
use to read messages so I use a two-pronged approach: 
I read the list through the archive at 
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/archives/, which is updated 
regularly just like the web interface, doesn't require you to 
log in, and has threading I like better. If I see a message 
to which I want to respond, then I log into the web interface.

-- Janice

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