[il-talk] How IL Talk Works
Connie Davis
condav8950 at att.net
Thu Mar 17 00:40:28 UTC 2011
Look, while I appreciate what many of you have said, I think this needs to
stop--at least on-list. If you want to talk more, let's e-mail privately
about this.
Connie
-----Original Message-----
From: il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert A.Hansen
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:43 PM
To: chasbo88 at comcast.net; il-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [il-talk] How IL Talk Works
I found the conversation stimulating myself.
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:54:05 pm
To: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
From: "Charlie Dennis" <chasbo88 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [il-talk] How IL Talk Works
This is a sad situation for us to be in. I understand how cumbersome such a
lengthy conversation can be, but I did a lot of learning in the midst of
those 20-some posts--even though I'll probably never get a 50/50 cane. I
dare say that reaction to the 20 posts has taken up more time and space than
the original conversation.
I have a suggestion. I'm not sure if this will work, because I don't know
that much about screen readers, but if we get to a message and the SUBJECT
is the same as something we already don't want to deal with, that might be
the best time to delete the message, instead of opening and reading it. That
may not always work, because sometimes people--me included--reply to a
message and talk about something totally different from what's in the
subject line. But that might be one thing we can do if a lengthy
conversation does come up again.
Charlie Dennis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Gardner" <rgardner4 at gmail.com>
To: "il-talk" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:50 AM
Subject: [il-talk] How IL Talk Works
Hi Everyone
Yesterday, we had a long series of messages on IL talk, a series of messages
that was basically a conversation between several individuals. As a result,
I think I need to refresh our collective memory on how our list serve works.
First of all, if you and Suzie, for example, start sending back and forth
messages on IL Talk as though you're talking to each other, you are also
sending those messages to the hundred or so others on IL Talk. Remember
that every message you post goes to everyone else on the list serve. If you
want to carry on a conversation with someone, send them a message to their
personal E-mail address. Don't use IL Talk -- that's not what it's for.
You should be able to get a person's personal E-mail address from messages
sent out on IL Talk. If you don't know how to do that, contact me and I'll
show you how.
Remember also that every time you send a message to IL Talk saying something
like, "thanks," or "good info," a hundred other people have to open that
message, get disgusted at a one-word or two-word message, close it, then
delete it. Remember how a list serve works. Every time you post a message,
everyone on the list has to read it.
As far as the series of messages yesterday: yes, they were blindness
related. But there's a limit to how much personal back and forth, back and
forth, and back and forth the rest of the list can stand. Please, please,
remember how the list serve works and use good judgment in your use of it.
Bob Gardner
IL Talk moderator
rgardner4 at gmail.com
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