[il-talk] How IL Talk Works

[Edwin Rodriguez]

Me to! 

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From: il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert A.Hansen
Sent: 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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