Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim B, Thanks for presenting a fine analogy of the LUG being a family. Many times in the recent past, I've had the same irritation that Gary felt when he first posted his request to stay on topic. After years of being on the net, my experience is that the LUG magnifies what is both good and bad about it. The good in that there are excellent technical resources, touching writeups of photographic and life experiences. Then the bad part is having to tolerate the chest thumping, the stream of consciousness s*** and offtopic chases down ratholes. At times the bad seriously overshadows the good. I Just like at times I've had to leave the dinner table when subjects get too touchy or hot... And a request for advice - what have you found to be the best way to filter out the unreadable? Regular feeds and filtering on topic or sender, or digest mode and hitting page-down? I've been using the latter for the LUG and I've found myself hitting page-down more often than I stop to read lately...