Current Rants and Recent Rambles

Too Much List Mail

Edited 02-12-08 : there's no more "Hang-Out" due to the webhost change. http://www.city-lists.com/CITY-Computer/Blogs.htm Check that page to see where you can set up a blog of your own. My blog on this site was toasted with the web host change. So that page has to be updated too.

01-16-06: A list member posted to the list suggesting we create a space where links to new pictures be gathered, or to create a communal blog where ClayMates can post that they have something to see. The ramble below is what I replied to her. I'm putting this up as a Ramble because it's a topic that comes up regularly... too much list mail.

Since this list started this subject has come up time
and time again.

We are a busy list. Always have been. If you check the
home page and see how many posts go through each
month, year after year.

There are a lot of links to check, not counting the
ones in demo logs after demos are done.

For folks who don't have a lot of time to spend
reading all the email and checking all the links I
say, no one said that there's going to be a test on
Friday to see if you did. Relax.

When you get the Sunday paper, do you read every page?
Probably not. You pick the sections you like to read.
I go for the Datebook to see what movie review are
there. I check the Home and Family sections for
domestic stuff like that. I check the comix. I don't
read the sports page, business page or the auto
classifieds.

Do the same thing for the email on this list.

Many people are on No Mail. Some folks get email in
Digest form and print it out and take it with them
when they are out and about, highlighting links they
want to check when they are at home.

Some folks are not interested in sculpting so they
don't check those posts.

Some folks are not interested in mini food so they
don't check those posts.

Some folks are not interested in jewelry findings and
where they can buy them so they don't read those
posts. 

Some folks are not interested in social bonding so
they don't check the posts that are a part of a thread
that is primarily social bonding.

No one is expected to read all the posts but me and I
take that task as part of my job of being Co-Owner and
Moderator of longest tenure.

CITY-CraftBizAdvice is where ClayMates can go and discuss the business of craft.

CITY Classifieds is where the CITYzens of all the CITY Lists can post items for sale or post for items they are looking to buy.

Off topic posts on COC i.e., sales, ads, spam, and the details of selling are not appropriate for competition curbs creativity.

So in summary: If there's too many posts, don't read
them all. If your in box is too full, go on No Mail or
Digest.

If you want to go on a rant build a blog of your own and put that blog link in your signature file. People will see your blog link when you post. Social bonding on the list is how we motivate people to click our blog or commercial links in our signature files. Be nice, be interesting, be helpful and people will follow your links.

Flame wars, controversial topics regarding religion, politics, and other topics will disturb the peace of the list and will cause you to be moderated and drawn into a discussion with one of the volunteers. If you really want to disturb the peace and can't clay nice, you may be relieved of the burden of being part of CITY-o-Clay. Meaning, you will be removed. Artists can't create in an environment that is negative.

Again, I've edited this page 02/12/08 because we don't have the old "Hang-Out" anymore. Got to figure some other non-Yahoo presence where ClayMates can meet, greet, and say "Neat!".

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