Folks,

I agree either. And I also think that changes for convenience are always
welcomed. If the mails are guouped into some "big e-mail" with 10 or 20 in one
package, things may get better. I hope others could provide some good advices.


Liu Jing
Institute of Microelectronics
Tsinghua University
Beijing, P.R.China(100084)
PHONE:86-10-62785486
EMAIL:[email protected]

> I agree.  I stopped reading newsgroups a long time ago and I don't know
> of _anybody_ who is reading them.  If you turn this list into a newsgroup
> then you'll lose a large part of the readers (and contributors).
> As long as the subject line is descriptive less interesting articles
> can be scanned out very quickly.
>
> Karl
>
>
> At 04:08 PM 2/23/99 -0700, Robert Okojie wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >I am not really a big fan of newsgroups.  It surreptitiously steals time,
> which
> >I am not certain we have much of.
> >
> >Perry is right:  Grab what you need and run.  Authors should therefore be
> adept
> >at constructing issue loaded topics in order to catch readers attention.
> >
> >Regards.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >
> >
> >On Feb 22, 11:07, Perry Skeath wrote:
> >> Subject: Re: Newsgroup?
> >> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:25:43 -0500
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> From: Perry Skeath 
> >> Subject: Re: Newsgroup?
> >> Cc:
> >> Bcc:
> >> X-Attachments:
> >>
> >> Hi, Michael -
> >>
> >> Isn't there already a MEMS newsgroup?  I used to use it, but stopped a
> >> couple of years ago.  It's a bother to have to do two separate activities
> >> (email plus newsgroup).  Everybody logs on to get email anyway, so I
> >> suspect this is why this email list gets so much activity.
> >>
> >> Perhaps there are some who use the newsgroup and who could report how the
> >> level of activity in the newsgroup compares with the level of activity in
> >> this email list.
> >>
> >> This email list works for me.  I don't feel obligated to read all the mail.
> >> My solution to the volume of email from this email list is look at the
> >> subjects, click all that are not of interest, and just hit the delete key
> >> once.
> >>
> >> >Dear All:
> >> >
> >> >I find this group very informative.  I think that the volume of email on
> >this
> >> >group
> >> >is high enough that it would be useful to make this a newsgroup
> instead.  I
> >> >understand
> >> >that you can access prior listings from this group at the web site:
> >> >http://mems.isi.edu/archives/Discussion_Group/index.html
> >> >but the number of mailings and responses is large enough that a newsgroup
> >> >format
> >> >
> >> >would be much more useful for me.  Anyone else share this opinion?
> >> >
> >> >Michael Gaitan
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >
> >> >Michael Gaitan, PhD
> >> >MicroElectroMechanical Systems
> >> >Semiconductor Electronics Division
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Perry Skeath
> >> SprayChip Systems Corp.
> >> 9841 Greenbelt Road, Suite 101
> >> Seabrook MD 20706-6270
> >> (301) 552-5570 voice
> >> (301) 552-5573 fax
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>-- End of excerpt from Perry Skeath
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Robert S. Okojie, Ph.D.
> >Senior Engineer
> >Ford Microelectronics
> >9965 Federal Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80921-3698
> >Phone:(719)528-7727; Fax: (719)528-7529
> >"The frontier of knowledge has no boundary.  Paradigms rise and fall"
> >
> >
> >


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