Re: OT was Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Web mail

[baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, inc wrote:

> there must be at least 10,000?  20,000? people on this
> list, and only 1 or two regular egonauts.

Well, I don't think the math is right...but I agree with the concept.

>  everything
> is useful information to a list-researcher, except for 
> the personal gripes.

I guess...but sometimes the "everything" is more than
my pea-sized brain can handle.  It gets very confused
with generic directions to specific questions...and
even more confused when the directions say something
like:
Go to the yellow store on the corner...they sell
whatchcallits, and when I get to the yellow store
on the corner I look at the shelves and while there
are signs that say whatchcallits, they all reference
other signs, yet there are no whatchacallits.

Sometimes searching for information reminds me of the
old ads for railroads and cruise lines:
"Getting there is half the fun"


  politely written commercial posts
> like that one don't jar a user searching the archive one
> hundredth as much as coming across some flame-thread.
> 

> > Perhaps, but in the haste to castigate them, we shouldn't
> > overlook the potential benefits of an additional venue.
> 
> ... the cobalt-user: "what additional venue?"
> 
> do you plan to market the new list here?  every month?

No, I don't even plan to operate the list and/or the website...I simply
agreed with another poster that it might be of benefit to have
such a resource.

Thom

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