Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01603
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Bumper314@aol.com
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:40:53 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Before you reply
In a message dated 3/18/99 4:39:54 PM Mountain Standard Time, ian@beam-
online.com writes:
> Before you reply to an e-mail on the list check to make sure no one has
> already replied. I mean somebody posts an e-mail to the list and it gets
> 2 or 3 replies saying exactly the same thing, just a waste of bandwidth.
Well, when I see something that I can answer, I reply to it. I dont read
through the rest of my mail to see if someone else has already said the same
thing. Maybe I should start doing that but I don't think I'm the only one that
does that.....And I personally dont really mind it, its only one more second
the flip to the next letter.
> Also lets keep the e-mails BEAM related. I know it's sometimes hard to
> not e-mail the list with something you find really cool but is not BEAM
> related. Although some might find it interesting the topic is BEAM
> robotics and sending it is a waste of bandwidth.
dude dude DUDE. This is being brought up to many times. Should someone
establish a new list or something that we can post our little NON BEAM
letters. this would include my LED-O-Scope, all new web pages or updated
pages, any new robots that are non beam, stuff for sale, or the little helpful
hints such as my camera flash capacitor that shocked the crap out of me.....
> Electronics - I think only stuff related to BEAM and stuff useful to bot
> building (LED O-scope....) should be discussed. Not how to build PIC bots
> and other projects not related to BEAM.
OK, I dont know if you are singling out my LED-O-Scope* as something that
shouldnt be talked about (as I think you are since this was brought up before)
but how about that Green Thumb (I really enjoyed that Steve so dont get me
wrong). And there are many useful applications in BEAM for o-scopes such as
checking your solar engines.
* sorry if I miss interpreted this...
> Whoever is the admin. of this list (Mark D.?) should send out a rules of
> the list e-mail every month or so. I will put one together. Any ideas for
> rules?
Well, I was thinking of this too. This could help newbies as well. It would
have the rules and sites to goto where you can find the rules and beginner
sites and such, and if you dont like going through mail that doesn't fit BEAM
exactly then (as I have suggested many times) we could do a code before the
subject that would tell you if its is a non beam, beam, newbie, web site, for
sale, or whatever....
Let this all sink in before you yell at me =)
Steve
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