I, too, am a big fan of this mailing list and find it extremely helpful. I also think the format should be left as is. I use Outlook Express (Microsoft Internet Explorer) as my e-mail program and I have set up an Inbox for the Flow e-mail that separates it from my other in-coming e-mail. This provides me with a fast and easy way to check all the Flow messages, and if I don't have time to read them, the messages don't get "lost" as they would on a newsgroup. Don't change a thing! Paula Lavery Transplant Immunology Laboratory Royal Victoria Hospital McGill University "If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein -----Original Message----- From: Derek Davies <daviesd2@icrf.icnet.uk> To: cyto-inbox Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 3:34 PM Subject: Re: A VERY BIG THANK YOU > >On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Te Chih Liu wrote: >> I'm predominantly a "lurker" rather than an active contributor but I >> second the comments above. The number of queries are and responses are >> quite big and the mail-box is sometimes overwhelmed, especially if you've >> just returned from a koliday. I'm wondering if the administrators who're >> doing a wonderful job with this forum have considered moving this into a >> Usenet newsgroup. That would be less exclusive since anyone can gain >> access to the group but it has some advantages: >> a) messages of the same thread are grouped together >> b) Postings of the recent past can still be read (at leisure) >> c) the reader can focus only on the threads he/she's interested in and >> choose to disregard the rest. > >There was some discussion about this at the last ISAC meeting in Colorado >Springs and, if I am right, the general feeling that moving to Usenet >would be a counter-productive move. > >The way things are at the moment means that we are not swamped with >adverts or UCE and the list administrators have a degree of control over >what we see (And a big Thank you to them for that too). With the >appropriate mail reader it is possible to filter all the list messages to >one folder and easy enough to scan the headers to find the mail one is >most interested in. > >In addition there is still the archived messages on the Web where messages >can be viewed by thread. I know that it is possible to have a moderated >newsgroup but on the downside, for me personally, my newsfeed is provided >by an Academic network and articles are only kept on the server for a >limited period so after a holiday I would have missed a number of >posts.(And, hey, I *like* getting mail!) > >Although the list messages are sent to list members the archive provides a >universal resource to which I have often directed people in the more >general Bionet newsgroup hierarchy. However, this is an interesting point >so what does everyone else feel? > >Derek > >*************************************************************************** * >* Derek Davies Voice: (44) 0171 269 3394 * >* FACS Laboratory, FAX: (44) 0171 269 3100 * >* Imperial Cancer Research Fund, e_mail: derek.davies@icrf.icnet.uk * >* London, UK * >* * >* Web Page: http://www.icnet.uk/axp/facs/davies/index.html * >*************************************************************************** * > > > > > >
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