X-Message-Number: 11864 Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:13:29 -0400 From: "Stephen W. Bridge" <> Subject: Splitting CryoNet To CryoNet From Steve Bridge May 31, 1999 Re: Splitting the List Either way is fine with me. I would prefer to get the entire list if that is one of the choices offered. While I find some of the consciousness-in- a-computer theorizing to be incredibly arcane and boring, once in a while someone has an insight that sets my mind off in new directions. I don't read it all; in fact I skip a lot. It depends on my mood and time available in that day. And I have a life with family and work far outside of cryonics. I do understand the position of those who would prefer to have these posts deleted so they can watch for posts more directly pointed at cryonics. A couple of suggestions that will NOT work for CryoNet at the present state of technology: >Message #11848 >From: "Billy H. Seidel" <> >Subject: Split list >Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 05:49:46 -0700 >One improvement I would like to see is, the ability to click on the >subject matter in the heading and be able to go directly to the posting. >This way I would not have to scroll through the items I am not interested >in. and >Message #11853 >From: "Philip Rhoades" <> >Subject: Splitting alternative - mail headers to archives >Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 16:45:08 +0100 >I think there is software around that will automatically produce database >tables from posted mail and just mail out the headers as hypertext links >to people on the list. That way people could just click on any topics of >interest to retrieve the body of the text. This would even work for text >browsers like lynx. Many people on mailing lists are unable to "click" at all. In my case, I am still using an old pre-Windows computer for my regular e-mail, although I have another one I use for Internet searching, etc. (I'll be getting a new computer in June, though.) Even more of a problem is that many common e-mail programs and mailing list programs are unable to process HTML programs in any useful way. For instance, Billy's message was posted on CryoNet with the complete HTML coding following it (usually Kevin's program cuts this out; Billy must have found a new way around it.) That produces annoying and space/time- wasting stuff that looks like this: >------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BEA997.0EE691A0 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> Billy, most versions of Netscape and Microsoft Explorer allow you to choose NOT to send HTML encoding. In later versions of Netscape, it is under Edit-Preferences-Mail. This is not a problem just for my old computer software. I get the same HTML repeats from some posters on an entirely different mailing list that my wife and I subscribe to through our e-mail address on the Windows family computer. Until we are all running similar programs (about the same time Hell has an ice hockey team), mailing lists have to use the lowest common denominator. Steve Bridge Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11864