Helen Hegener

At 3:54 AM +0000 1/28/01, [email protected] wrote:
>100 lists I'm just a member of?
>
>Oh mY! How on earth do you have time to read all that
>email and still carry on with daily life?
>Kerry

Many of my lists - like this one - are on digest format, so I only
get one or two messages per day instead of 40-50, and many are set to
read on the web only, and I don't read them unless something comes up
that I want to pay attention to, mostly politics relating to
homeschooling and such. When I'm not going to be paying attention for
a few days I set all my lists to "no mail," then I use the search
feature out at the eGroups (now Yahoo!) site to go back and check on
the ones I want to catch up with when I turn the lists back to "send
mail." I only actually follow about 20 lists full-time, which is
manageable since it's a large part of my job as managing editor of
Home Education Magazine. I use lists to discuss issues with my
editors, columnists, writers, reviewers, advertisers, printers, other
publishers, and so forth. And to keep in touch with my far-flung
family, to catch up on analysis of the day's news from my favorite
commentators, travel bargains, reviews of new movies, etc.

And I'm a *very* fast reader, too. <g>

Helen

[email protected]

In a message dated 6/17/03 11:49:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

>
> Does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Joyce
> Unschooling-dotcom moderator
>
>
>
>

I love the "rule of thumb" applied to cutting and pasting. Keep the pasted
quote shorter than your response. IOW, don't cut and past a whole email to then
reply with only 3 sentances.
Highlighting the quoted sections either with << >> or something similar is
helpful to the reader also.
I hate to sound picky but when a reader is on digest, it can become very
confusing when trying to pick out the new from the huge amount of quotes. There's
a way to change your settings so that when you reply, your email will only
include the sections you've personally highlighted rather than the entire text,
headers and all.
*~*Elissa Jill*~*
unschooling Momma to 3 beautiful brilliant people
Loving partner for life to Joey
terrible guitarist, fair singer and happy woman.






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