All ( Clay !!) –
From the get-go I have had Daffnet on Digest mode. When I had a real job and had subscribed to a number of professional listserves, it was the only way I could manage the email flow and actually get any work done. So, it’s what I did with DaffNet. It’s easier for me than having a separate email account, which I know some folks do so they don’t drown in their inboxes of their main email accts.
With Digest mode, I see no photos whatsoever, and all the emails of the day are packaged up. (This also keeps my inbox from getting crashed with image files).
During peak seasons I may still get 5 or more Digest blocks of emails; when someone is sending every image from a show, like this past Saturday, they came in pairs of two emails per Digest, and I still got well over 10 (20?) Digest emails.
However, this allows me to scan all the email headings in a glance, and decide if I want to read any or not, and swiftly delete.
And, if I want to look at any images, I go to the DaffNet archives and use that trusty dusty password I get reminded about every month, and sit down when I have the time and look at all the images.
But, if there’s an image I really want to see right then, it comes thru as an active link – I click on it, it takes me to the archives, enter my password and there it is.
If I want to save a posting, I run a Word document – so open it up, cut and paste the info (like Keith’s soils stuff) save and that’s it. I make sure I save the header info, so I know when it was sent and by whom.
An alternative~
-s
And here's one more alternative … The senders of show pics can set up an online album (Google's Picasa is the one I use). Download all the show pics, with pertinent info, then send ONE email to Daffnet w/ invitation to view the album. Sending individual pics has got to be hugely time consuming! I've used this process to share pics from my Belgium/Holland trip, with very satisfactory results.
Obviously there are almost as many ways to disseminate pics as there are photographers!
:)), Darrin
Darrin Ellis-May
President
Georgia Daffodil Society
Milton, GA USA
You know time is going by too fast when you start reminiscing about the early days of the internet. Ahhhh, but there was a time when the internet was new to all of us. Most of its tubes were still not in use (
) and it took ten minutes to open a small picture. Netscape was yet to be gobbled up by AOL, and you couldn’t yet Google anything. The movie Wall Street had Michael Douglas strolling down the beach talking on a pumpkin-sized cell phone. If you were on a listserv at the time, about half of the discussion was about people abusing the listserv by including too many of the previous messages in their messages.
I remember at the time, one of the IT people in our office mentioned that he never deleted anything. Oh my God (OMG) this person was going straight to hell for sure. How could he be a computer expert and have such an overgrown and messy inbox? Now, I see his point, and it is a point I would make here.
More than ten years ago, I opened a Yahoo account when I decided it might not be the best of ideas to have 80 percent of my work email inbox consist of non-work-related emails. I am retired now and still that same Yahoo account. Last check I made, I had nearly 30,000 messages in my inbox. Not a peep from Yahoo. Nor, I expect, would there be complaints from Hotmail, Lycos, G-mail, or most other free email servers. You have your own service, so you would know their policy. I suspect they are all quite liberal about storage space because that is not as big an issue now as it was in the beginning. Now it is possible to walk around with a flashdrive in your pocket holding a thousand songs and half a dozen movies or tv shows. I won’t even mention the capacities of IPODs, IPhones and the like. Times have changed.
There are people who have spent days “cleaning out” their inboxes. I would argue a total waste of time with today’s technology. It’s not really your attic or basement you are clearing. In most cases, it’s not really on your computer. It’s Yahoo’s or Hotmail’s attic or basement, and they have got plenty of space. Life is short, do something more useful is my advice.
But there is a more significant point, I think. I regard my inbox as an archive with information potential that I may not have realized. It’s not really organized or disorganized; it’s just there waiting to be summoned. In addition to Daffnet, I subscribe to a few other listservs, including a neighborhood one where neighbors can ask for recommendations for good plumbers or roofers. Now, I don’t need a roofer now, but in five years, who knows? Granted there are a lot of messages about lost dogs and needed babysitters that I will never need, but that doesn’t matter. I am only going to search for what I need.
So here is my point related to the posting of pictures (or anything else): You can use your old messages for research. If, as senility rapidly approaches, I can’t for the life of me remember what Fragrant Rose or Altun Ha look like, I can use my handy email search engine to see whether someone has ever posted a picture of those lovely cultivars. (Hint: It’s right next to one of the highly recommended plumbers.) In addition, unlike results we might get from a database–even Daffseek–our old emails might have information on who may still have that variety. Moreover, we can glean information not easily available from sources other than our own archives. If you have saved show results over many years, you could search using keywords as “gold,” “Quinn,” “National,” “Mitsch,” and so on that might lead you to try some potential winners for yourself. It’s up to your creativity and imagination concerning how you might extract insight and organization from this archive that you would not have had you deleted everything in order to have a tidy inbox.
And, Clay, if you think it is daunting to open your email and see fifty or sixty messages with photos, imagine how we feel when you and Fran come through the door of a show holding fifty or sixties perfect real daffs!
Best to everyone, Tom Roche, Decatur, Georgia USA
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All ( Clay !!) –
From the get-go I have had Daffnet on Digest mode. When I had a real job and had subscribed to a number of professional listserves, it was the only way I could manage the email flow and actually get any work done. So, it’s what I did with DaffNet. It’s easier for me than having a separate email account, which I know some folks do so they don’t drown in their inboxes of their main email accts.
With Digest mode, I see no photos whatsoever, and all the emails of the day are packaged up. (This also keeps my inbox from getting crashed with image files).
During peak seasons I may still get 5 or more Digest blocks of emails; when someone is sending every image from a show, like this past Saturday, they came in pairs of two emails per Digest, and I still got well over 10 (20?) Digest emails.
However, this allows me to scan all the email headings in a glance, and decide if I want to read any or not, and swiftly delete.
And, if I want to look at any images, I go to the DaffNet archives and use that trusty dusty password I get reminded about every month, and sit down when I have the time and look at all the images.
But, if there’s an image I really want to see right then, it comes thru as an active link – I click on it, it takes me to the archives, enter my password and there it is.
If I want to save a posting, I run a Word document – so open it up, cut and paste the info (like Keith’s soils stuff) save and that’s it. I make sure I save the header info, so I know when it was sent and by whom.
An alternative~
-s
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