[meteorite-list] LONG Posts that give us Arthritis to Scroll though

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:27:42 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY153-W36D769A050DDBCE1E89714F88C0_at_phx.gbl>

Hi, All,

 

If we're taking votes, I find histories attached to emails quite helpful, most of the time.

 

Cheers,

Pete
 


> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:02:48 -0500
> From: meteoritemike at gmail.com
> To: searchingforfun at sbcglobal.net
> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] LONG Posts that give us Arthritis to Scroll though
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> That's a great idea. As an unrepentant luddite, I have never read an
> email on a phone. Actually, the only things I have ever done on a
> phone are : talk and very rarely send text messages. The extra hassle
> (for mobile browsers) caused by multiple quoted emails at the end of a
> List post never occurred to me. I'll try to remember that from now
> on.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
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> On 1/28/12, Brian Cox <searchingforfun at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > Hello all of you wonderful Meteorite Collectors and those lucky enough to be
> > in Tucson this year,
> >
> > Just a quick request that many have been talking about lately. How about
> > just a "Fresh email Post" without all the long trailing info of many old
> > posts.
> >
> > Since many of us old timers and new folks read our Email on our phones and
> > are short on time, battery life and Increasingly Bad Vision and those of us
> > who are getting arthritis and want to avoid Carpo-Tunnel, can I please
> > request when everyone sends a post that they leave out all the lengthy
> > portions of many, many OLD previous email posts.
> >
> > It's very time consuming on us all and on our phone batteries and on our
> > wrists and hands, back and shoulders and bodies in general all over to
> > scroll through all the previous posts that many are including in their posts
> > to the list. I'm seeing posts going back over 4 days or more that we don't
> > need to read or scroll through regarding many things, especially the recent
> > etching posts. Most of us understand etching, but when you have a post that
> > includes the past 3-7 email posts no one is reading all the old posts since
> > we've already read it and those that haven't seen them will catch up or can
> > go into the archives to find them.
> >
> > Please, just a friendly request for a "Fresh Post" and perhaps one short
> > connected previous email post, not the entire thread. This will make
> > everyone much happier and cut down on time and battery life and our bodies.
> >
> > Thanks! ;-)
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