RE: [MV] list archive (why I choose to unsubscribe)

From: Warren Carlsrud (wcarlsrud@globalcare.net)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 11:57:43 PDT


  
                Hehe, an answer to a question that I've been too lazy (for years...) to bother to figure out...

:)

Warren Carlsrud

-----Original Message-----
From: m35products [mailto:m35prod@optonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:43 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] list archive (why I choose to unsubscribe)


Use the "reply all" button. apb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Maynard" <mike@wesleyscott.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] list archive (why I choose to unsubscribe)


> I think one thing that would help tremendously with the list, would be
> to have replies go to the list automatically. This is the only list I
> am on out of many, where when you click reply, it goes to the originator
> of the msg, not the list. Very difficult to keep things on list that
> way, and is how a lot of answers get missed.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil E. Amrhein [mailto:neil@compu-powr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 12:37 PM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] list archive (why I choose to unsubscribe)
>
> > Of late, a significant number of requests for info get answered by
> > direct replies to the poster instead of the list. This is why so many
> > questions get asked over and over and over. Because of this tendency,
> a
> > search of the archives gets you only the previously asked questions,
> not the
> > answers.
>
> Ron makes a good point here. However, I would point out that there
> is no archive "search" that I am aware of, which helps contribute to
> this exact problem. If Google hasn't cached what I'm looking for from
> the archives, then I am hitting the list with it, even though it was
> asked last month.
> As an example, I was/am looking for M211 information. I remember
> some discussion in the past about the transmissions, etc... But going to
> the archives (which have not been updated in quite a while anyway) and
> manually loading each month of each year and scouring subject lines for
> this stuff is a waste of my time. So, I hit the list and hope someone is
> gracious enough to answer my questions (again). Some list members like
> to rant about how many times they've posted about a CUCV this, or an
> M35A2 that, but they must have never tried to find anything in the
> archives, or I doubt they'd complain so much.
> If I am in the dark, and there is an archive keyword search
> available, please let me in on it. Otherwise, I would suggest adding one
> as an invaluable tool to help members find information, and to stop
> members from whining ("Doesn't anyone read the archives? I'm posting
> this for the 5th time....blah, blah, blah..."). I believe there are 3rd
> party sources for mailing list archiving. I'd be willing to kick in a
> few bucks toward it.
>
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