On Wed, 18 May 2005 jwaddell@spunge.org wrote:
I guess Mr. Branko Collin will never see this since he has apparently filtered me [along with a number of other people] out of his world. Curiouser, and curioser.....I wonder what he's missed due to his chosen blindness.....[perhaps nothing important] hmmmm. By the way, I'm quite a newbie as far as contributing to Gutenburg is concerned, I wonder if my previous questions such 1) the proper way to take a physical book in my possession and get it transcibed into gutenburg 2) is there a digital camera I can get that will be able to take pictures to run through ocr properly or is a flatbed scanner the only viable method. And I'm sure I've asked other questions that seemed to fall on deaf ears, perhaps now I know why....
So my question becomes: how do I use this list for the discussion of PG if the people currently involved in PG ignore me because I was once inconsiderate enough to engage someone who was using the list (even if their usage is considered a hazard to most user's of the list)? For now I will stay on this list in the hopes that I'll be able to contribute both to it and to the project as a whole.... It may be that it's only a pipe dream and I'll have to find some other way to utilize my limited time.
Use the list as you see fit, as everyone else does. However, some see fit to try to decide how others will use the list, and that doesn't fly nearly as well as Branko's solution of simply ignoring those he doesn't want to see. Noring has his own eBook list on which I participate, but I notice that not all my contributions make it to the list with any notice that "moderation" was taking place. I think Bowerbird also has his own place, but not technically a listserv. In any case, if you want to be sure _I_ see a message, just start the subject line with !@! and keep resending until I answer; not all emails get here promptly. . .yesterday while I was on the phone with Greg Newby one of his messages from May 8 came through, and it was sent from the same machine I use for email, so go fiture. email is NOT 100%. . .sorry to say. So. . .the real answer is just do as you think best, and 99% of the time that will be ok. Michael
Sincerely,
Jeff Waddell jwaddell@spunge.org
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I started filtering out the flunkeys, and currently have the following addresses in my blocklist: Shimmin, Jon Noring, JWaddell, Gutenberg9443, Joshua, CannonA, Brandon, and Doug Schroeder. These are all people who felt it necessary to engage with the Bird and make this list a worse place to be, when instead they could have shown constraint.
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