[or-roots] Hogging the list

[Leslie Chapman]

I have to agree with the sentiment the more the merrier. As I told Cecil
privately I can sort of sympathize with folks since I archive a lions share
of the list stuff and since he reposts and I try to sort stuff by sender or
subject his posting a dozen letters a day makes a little extra work for me,
but what I want to point out is that a lot of folks don't know how (me for
instance) to access the archives, or are too lazy ( me again) and some
search engines don't do archives well.
And folks that are new to the list might see something they would have never
known was available. I am on the Wheeler list and have probably posted some
of the same info 4 or five times in two years because folks keep asking for
it.
I am on top of things enough to have some clue what has and hasn't been
posted and often will send things privately, if I can remember to do it that
way and not post it to the list by mistake. Often I end up haveing to turn
around and post to the list cause the subject comes up and a bunch of other
folks want to know what I posted.
Are we confused yet?
People who are offended by all those need to learn how to block incoming
email. Most email programs have a facility for blocking junk email and if
folks are so put off by Cecil being informative they could just go block him
out. He won't mind cause he won't know it and those of us who enjoy his
stuff won't have to waste so much list space defending him. Hopefully the
archivists at Or-list can go through and dump all this useless dialogue, but
of course 50 years from now this whole discussion will be valuable history.
I am dealing with nearly a thousand pages of letters from 1908 to 1947 sent
mostly to my maternal gram, and believe me if most of those folks had known
their words would end up being history they probably wouldn't have put pen
to paper.

Les C.