Re: My current practise in using Conlang e-mails

Clint Jackson BAKER wrote:

> Dear all--I just deleted a zillion conlang e-mails.  Originally I had
> tried to delete occasionally with the hope of getting to the ones I
> thought useful.  But this hopelessly backfired when I saw that my
> account was at 125% of its limit. In the year-plus that I was away,
> both the population and traffic of this list exploded.  I cannot come
> anywhere near reading all of the e-mails.  There are not enough hours
> in the day.  Additionally, I have calculated from my deleting in the
> recent past that about 95% of the e-mails are irrelevant to what I
> hope to accomplish.  That does not mean that these e-mails are without
> value--please do keep posting!--but it means that there is very little
> that I can read that meets my particular needs as a conlanger. So, I
> have to tell you all this:If I see the same subject title over and
> over and over, those will be deleted, because I know that the subject
> has drifted considerably, but there is no way to tell what the current
> subject is from the outdated subject title. Chit-chatty messages will
> more than likely be deleted, unless they are someone's initial
> introduction, or it is directed to me.  Sorry--I simply have far too
> much going on. I will delete others at my discretion. I'm sorry--it's
> just that the conlang list has become enormous--which is in itself a
> good thing.  But it has become too unmanageable to me. I tried to
> express all of this in a gentle manner, and I think I failed.  I hope
> I have not hurt anyone in the process.  (You know I will want to keep
> hearing personally from some of you, too.)  But I have had to do
> something to make this manageable for myself, and unfortunately, I
> have had to be drastic about it. Thanks for understanding.Clint
I don't read many of them, either. I sometimes forget to check my email
and end up with hundreds to sift through.