From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:51:11 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:38 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave

[...]
>
> There are also people, like me, who don't like web-based mail or lists.
> Unlike e-mail they make you use a particular interface (and there are no
> standards I've been able to detect for how those work or look, or even
> which browsers they will work with and which they won't) and you have to
> remember to go look at each of them, while e-mail just shows up on my
> machine.  Yahoo Groups doesn't have these last problems, as you can have
it
> send you the messages too, but even when set to "plain text" it doesn't
> follow long established standards for message format (like what is used
in
> this one) and that leads to confusion over who said what when a thread
gets
> longer than a single response.

I've never had that problem.  Rather, the reverse:  clueless people quoting
previous posts without trimming -- the worst being those who get the
digests and quote an entire digest.

--Ted White