Guest guest Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 These discussion groups, especially high volume ones, will have cycles of peaks and valleys on numerous topics that may or may not apply to an individual's personal interest or needs. For example, I personally have no need to read the NJ-related announcements, potty training, insurance tips, U.S.-based special education, U.S.-based therapies that are not available/applicable to our situation and location, and a few other topics or even emails from specific people. While I understand there are newcomers who are unfamiliar with how to search the archives and links pages, we see the same questions about dosage and the difference between oils, etc over and over and over. It's not that these messages are not important, they just don't apply to MY situation. I am not upset that they exist as the conversations are valid, depending on at what point in the apraxia-dyspraxia game you are. I have created filters in my email program(s) to catch those and auto-delete these " undesired for me " messages, or at least throw them into a separate folder when I can screen them later without being forced to weed through them as I read the 100s of other messages awaiting my attention. Creating filters to manage messages is possible and easy with direct webmail access and programs like Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird. If anyone needs help creating filters, I'll be glad to help...just drop me an email. Often people don't take the time change the SUBJECT lines when they change discussions on a certain thread and I always feel I might " miss " some other important discussions " hidden " under those messages whose titles got " filtered " just because the title contained a keyword on the filter program. Some of the messages are also repeats of the same biomed or medical political info shared on other lists that I am subscribed to, so I just hit DEL on those and move on. I do not intend this email as a complaint about messages topics appearing or not. I personally believe that ALL the messages serve a purpose and that noone in the group should get snippy about the messages that are shared. If you KNOW there are topics that don't interest you, take the available action to let them be auto-deleted before you get to even see them. Apraxia - it's causes and individualness are vast and do co-exist with other conditions that make it impossible to talk about only stand-alone apraxia which is rare...there is no ONE cause or one cure (traditional therapy or biomed or whatever else) that will apply to everyone. I personally don't think it is correct to criticize people who make the effort more often to share information, even if it is not to your liking. Everyone who want to " re-take control " of the discussions and possible re-change the balance of what is being discussed on the group need to step forward, jump right in and write messages in response to new questions/new members and not sit passively behind their keyboards waiting for the few people who do make the effort to give their feedback and share what has worked for them. I, too, am tired of the nit-picking that takes place but even that has its own cycle of frequency here. The nit-picking time could be better spent, Googling and reading articles online that apply to one's unique apraxia/dyspraxia co-existing condition situation, reading the archives, reading the links sections ... or even preparing materials and actually interacting with one's child who needs as much frequent and repetitious, playful interaction as possible. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 Well said ! Tina > > These discussion groups, especially high volume ones, will have cycles > of peaks and valleys on numerous topics that may or may not apply to an > individual's personal interest or needs. > > For example, I personally have no need to read the NJ-related > announcements, potty training, insurance tips, U.S.-based special > education, U.S.-based therapies that are not available/applicable to our > situation and location, and a few other topics or even emails from > specific people. While I understand there are newcomers who are > unfamiliar with how to search the archives and links pages, we see the > same questions about dosage and the difference between oils, etc over > and over and over. It's not that these messages are not important, > they just don't apply to MY situation. I am not upset that they exist > as the conversations are valid, depending on at what point in the > apraxia-dyspraxia game you are. > > I have created filters in my email program(s) to catch those and > auto-delete these " undesired for me " messages, or at least throw them > into a separate folder when I can screen them later without being forced > to weed through them as I read the 100s of other messages awaiting my > attention. Creating filters to manage messages is possible and easy > with direct webmail access and programs like Outlook Express and Mozilla > Thunderbird. If anyone needs help creating filters, I'll be glad to > help...just drop me an email. > > Often people don't take the time change the SUBJECT lines when they > change discussions on a certain thread and I always feel I might " miss " > some other important discussions " hidden " under those messages whose > titles got " filtered " just because the title contained a keyword on the > filter program. > > Some of the messages are also repeats of the same biomed or medical > political info shared on other lists that I am subscribed to, so I just > hit DEL on those and move on. > > I do not intend this email as a complaint about messages topics > appearing or not. I personally believe that ALL the messages serve a > purpose and that noone in the group should get snippy about the messages > that are shared. If you KNOW there are topics that don't interest you, > take the available action to let them be auto-deleted before you get to > even see them. Apraxia - it's causes and individualness are vast and > do co-exist with other conditions that make it impossible to talk about > only stand-alone apraxia which is rare...there is no ONE cause or one > cure (traditional therapy or biomed or whatever else) that will apply to > everyone. > > I personally don't think it is correct to criticize people who make the > effort more often to share information, even if it is not to your > liking. Everyone who want to " re-take control " of the discussions and > possible re-change the balance of what is being discussed on the group > need to step forward, jump right in and write messages in response to > new questions/new members and not sit passively behind their keyboards > waiting for the few people who do make the effort to give their feedback > and share what has worked for them. > > I, too, am tired of the nit-picking that takes place but even that has > its own cycle of frequency here. The nit-picking time could be better > spent, Googling and reading articles online that apply to one's unique > apraxia/dyspraxia co-existing condition situation, reading the archives, > reading the links sections ... or even preparing materials and actually > interacting with one's child who needs as much frequent and repetitious, > playful interaction as possible. > > ____________________________________________________________ > GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! > Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more! > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 YES, YES, YES!!! --So well said! thank you! From: momresearch <makeitbetter@...> Subject: [ ] Filtering Posts " Apraxia " < > Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 3:22 AM These discussion groups, especially high volume ones, will have cycles of peaks and valleys on numerous topics that may or may not apply to an individual's personal interest or needs. For example, I personally have no need to read the NJ-related announcements, potty training, insurance tips, U.S.-based special education, U.S.-based therapies that are not available/applicable to our situation and location, and a few other topics or even emails from specific people. While I understand there are newcomers who are unfamiliar with how to search the archives and links pages, we see the same questions about dosage and the difference between oils, etc over and over and over. It's not that these messages are not important, they just don't apply to MY situation. I am not upset that they exist as the conversations are valid, depending on at what point in the apraxia-dyspraxia game you are. I have created filters in my email program(s) to catch those and auto-delete these " undesired for me " messages, or at least throw them into a separate folder when I can screen them later without being forced to weed through them as I read the 100s of other messages awaiting my attention. Creating filters to manage messages is possible and easy with direct webmail access and programs like Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird. If anyone needs help creating filters, I'll be glad to help...just drop me an email. Often people don't take the time change the SUBJECT lines when they change discussions on a certain thread and I always feel I might " miss " some other important discussions " hidden " under those messages whose titles got " filtered " just because the title contained a keyword on the filter program. Some of the messages are also repeats of the same biomed or medical political info shared on other lists that I am subscribed to, so I just hit DEL on those and move on. I do not intend this email as a complaint about messages topics appearing or not. I personally believe that ALL the messages serve a purpose and that noone in the group should get snippy about the messages that are shared. If you KNOW there are topics that don't interest you, take the available action to let them be auto-deleted before you get to even see them. Apraxia - it's causes and individualness are vast and do co-exist with other conditions that make it impossible to talk about only stand-alone apraxia which is rare...there is no ONE cause or one cure (traditional therapy or biomed or whatever else) that will apply to everyone. I personally don't think it is correct to criticize people who make the effort more often to share information, even if it is not to your liking. Everyone who want to " re-take control " of the discussions and possible re-change the balance of what is being discussed on the group need to step forward, jump right in and write messages in response to new questions/new members and not sit passively behind their keyboards waiting for the few people who do make the effort to give their feedback and share what has worked for them. I, too, am tired of the nit-picking that takes place but even that has its own cycle of frequency here. The nit-picking time could be better spent, Googling and reading articles online that apply to one's unique apraxia/dyspraxia co-existing condition situation, reading the archives, reading the links sections ... or even preparing materials and actually interacting with one's child who needs as much frequent and repetitious, playful interaction as possible. ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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