Useless chatter

[Guest guest]

Does anyone else get a bit aggrivated by all the off-topic chatter

here? I expected there to be rational discussions of protocols, issues

of general interest, course announements, and such. Instead, we get

100+ messages about escaped convicts, and a zillion replies to every

message that someone doesn't like.

I'm a member of several large lists, and this one has the most traffic

by far, by a factor of 5 probably. Not more good information, or good

content, just traffic. If I miss a week, there are literally hundreds

of messages to go through, and most I just delete because they aren't

relevant.

I'm really trying to keep my input to things that are on topic and

relevant to the masses, not just gripes about employers, general news,

etc. And I'm really trying lately not to send the " way to go! " type of

messages, which just make it hard on everyone to wade through.

I just don't have time to wade through it all sometimes. Either most

medics have way too much time on their hands, or we need to work on

this!

I really like this listerv, and there are so many folks here that have

so much that I want to hear about, and I learn so much, it's really

great! But the " noise " is hard to get through sometimes.

Ok, that's all. I promise not to send ANY more messages to the group

about this. I'm really trying.

=Steve=

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P. , CCP, EMT-P

Instructor Trainer NSC, AHA, ASHI

SPT Enterprises, Inc.

PO Box 294136

ville, TX 75029-4136

Phone

[Guest guest]

I agree with Steve. I would like to see us try to go back to emphasizing

specific EMS, TDH and medical topics. There

are numerous news services and web sites available that cover anything else you

desire.

Because of the large increases in volume of overall messages, I think we should

try to par down and get specific to

EMS issues so we CAN have the time to take advantage of it. Even if you

propose to DELETE it still takes so much

time to read each message enouh to know whether you want to delete it.

I have not voiced an opinion in the past because of the predicted responses.

Melody Malouf, JD, LP, NREMT-P

> I agree! That's a great solution. I just go through and delete. That's

> what the delete key is for. It's a shame someone always has to gripe about

> something on this server but never has anything great to say about it. I for

> one appreciate most of the things I find on it daily. Since we all work

> together as a family, ie, EMS, Fire department, and Police, it makes since

> that some of us are interested in what happens to our colleges and friends.

>

> LloydEMT

[Guest guest]

Dave:

I think this is a great idea but without TDH " stepping up to the plate " and

setting some guidelines for this list (like

Paramedicine.com finally had to do) everyone will continue to do this and

disagree about it.

One way to help cut the " bandwidth " AND be curteous to others is to edit out the

addresses, previous messages,

advertisements, indexes, ect. and send the relevant portions ONLY, especially on

forwarded materials.

You simply click and highlight the portion you want to delete by dragging the

mouse over it then hit " delete " . It

really only takes you a few seconds but saves the rest of us a tremendous amount

of searching and time, especially

with the large volume of information coming into the list now. Then readers

have more time to participate and I

beleive it also gives more credibility to the sender.

Hope to see some future guidelines--voluntary or not. :-)

Melody Malouf, JD, LP, NREMT-P

> Melody:

>

> One possible solution might be to set up a separate e-group site for the

> posting of the newsflashes that some of us would like to see off this list.

> Those that want that sort of thing could also subscribe to that. Those as

> don't won't. I don't think any list is going to be totally free of the

> one-line, " Yea, verily, Yea, " (with apologies to the Court Jester) posts,

> but that would at least pare down some of the stuff and let this list be

> more for what it was originally intended. I might also mention that such a

> secondary list could have the ability to include attachments restored,

> something they had to eliminate from this list for bandwidth reasons. What

> say ye, brethern & , uh ...sister-ern, would that possibly be a solution?

>

> D