on Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Marc Party wrote:
 
> Folks, I'll be signing off of the Bee discussion group as soon as I
> figure out how.
... cut ...
> It has become too much for me.  My in box is cluttered with messages.
 
On Thu, 2 Nov 1995 Gordon Scott commented :
 
> ... it is inevitable that people leave due to overload ...
> Bee-l is supposed to be for "Discussion on Bee Biology". We have
> tended to stray substantially from that into bee farming, honey
> production, wax uses and so on. Maybe bee-l should be returned
> to its original mandate and a new line for non-biology related
> stuff should be started.  What think?
 
Please ! Please ! Please ! All !  Don't try to re-invent the square wheel !
 
Hello !  I'm a french scientific+beekeeper speaking bee-liner since
end of 1992 and a discussion like this taked place on spring 1993 (see
the archiv). At this time we were about 280 on BEE-L and some members
found "it it too much..."  or "it is not enough ..." and we discussed
and discussed and the "more scientific and serious list" SOCINSCT was
created.  Looking at the list members, I was surprised to see almost
nobody to get out the BEE-L list after to sign-on the SOCINSCT one.
In September, only 7 recipients on BEE-L were getting out to sign on
SOCINSCT only.  And the Bee-L list counted still 280 members.
   (Yes, Liz you sign on a bit after that boring discussions)
 
IMHO SocInsct is not a *living* list as BEE-L and *living* means you
must use more frequently the *del* button ...
 
I'll stop here because to write in english is a work for me and I have
not to much time now.  But as an oldman on bee-l (Allen and Gordon: on
in 94; Simon, Marc and Mark: on in 95), I'm convinced we must still
keep a single list on Bees in spite of we are now 615 members
worldwide bee lovers.
 
I agree with the Liz mail :
 
> It seems to me OK as it is.
 
It is even possible to improve the use of our list : I'm seeing
 
  1/ for *each* mail a really significative subject line !
  2/ may be a little more netiquette !
 
and I copy Mark ...
 
> if you haven't already used your DELETE button on this, thank you
> for reading ;-)
 
Jean-Marie
 
I quite agree with you Mark :
 
> ... but MOST IMPORTANTLY u have to know when to use the OFF switch!!!
 
some list have a POSTPONE button to remain signing-on but don't
receive any mail. Seems we havn't.
 
> similarly, there are many appropriate filters, and there's always
> the handy DELETE button as u go thru your mail/newsgroup.
 
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This => C'est ma facon de parler !
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