RE: 50 hours ! WOW

[PATRIZIA.KELLER@AO.DTRA.mil]

Sometimes I wonder about some folks....

Capt Patrizia Keller
AODTRA/NSID
Defense Nuclear Weapons School


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Enrico SARTORI [SMTP:sartori@nea.fr]
> Sent:	Friday, November 12, 1999 11:36 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	50 hours ! WOW
> 
> Ladies and gentlemen
> 
> I am a newcomer to this listserver. I did it upon suggestion of others.
> I was very pleased to see that I have subscribed to a forum  that
> provides a good discussion. In addition I immediately noted that this
> community is very active.
> After 3 days on the list I start to worry: it is maybe too active - the
> discussion starts to get blurred - anything, including spell ckecking?
> 
> A simple calculation: suppose the listserver has a mailing list of 1000.
> To read and understand a message, (excuse me, English is not my mother
> tongue) takes me in the average 3 minutes. Thus every message sent out
> will use up an integral of 3000 minutes of recipients' time, that's 50
> hours and that's almost 7 days if you work about 8 hours a day.
> 
> So, may I suggest that we keep the discussion focussed, otherwise I have
> to get off folks.
> 
> I realise that I am not consistent here, though I have kept it short,
> because by sending this I have wasted almost 15 hours of your time. But
> I hope that this investment up front will have overall a time saving
> effect.
> 
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