Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:19:30 -0600
Reply-To: Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
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From: Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject: Re: Newsgroups & Usergroups
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I don't understand this comment, "I handle that by receiving Digests".
In terms of total bytes of text, you probably receive more stuff in
Digest mode. Any modern mail system (and even GroupWise) can handle
routing SAS-L mail into its own folder so it doesn't interfere with your
normal mail, and non-digest mode makes it much easier to read and
respond to items of particular interest.
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JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Manager, Technical Development
Metrics Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA
>>> "Nigel Pain" <Nigel.Pain@SCOTLAND.GSI.GOV.UK> 06/13/2003 3:54 AM
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Ray
Different country, and not related to a LUG, but I have discussed SAS-L
with
some of my immediate colleagues. A common comment is that there is too
much
"incoming" for them to cope with (I handle that by receiving Digests).
A
sign of a useful and active group, I would have thought. But then, if
you're
not prepared to contribute you're not going to benefit either I
suppose.
Regards,
Nigel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Pass [mailto:raypass@ATT.NET]
> Sent: 12 June 2003 15:57
> Subject: Newsgroups & Usergroups
>
>
> Interesting how these things work. I don't mind admitting
> that I was the
> one who privately asked Jack for an explanation of newsgroups
> as I am a
> "newsgroup nothing". I asked him to keep it to a paragraph
> as I did not
> want to impose on his time and I could just as easily look it
> up somewhere
> without him having to compose a lesson for me. Well, in his
> usual generous
> way, he not only sent me TWO paragraphs, but also expanded
> his note for
> SAS-L as you saw here. Thanks Jack.
>
> Then at the NYASUG meeting, as Roger reports, I asked my
> usual question
> about how many members subscribed to SAS-L, and got my usual
> answer - less
> than half - actually, way less than half. I emcee the meetings,
which
> always include a Random Access session in which anybody can
> ask anything
> about SAS and hopefully will get an answer from the audience
> - sort of a
> mini SAS-L session. A question came up about the maximum
> length of a file
> path that could be used in PROC IMPORT or EXPORT. The answer
> wasn't quite
> apparent in the audience although a few had some ideas. So
> once again I
> mentioned that if this question were put out to SAS-L, the
> asker would have
> an audience of over 2000 possible responders (at which point Roger
> corrected me in that it would be over 4000 if we counted the
> recruiters)
> instead of just the 80 or so in the room. So once again I
> went into my
> rant about joining SAS-L, this time accompanied by two of the
> SAS Masters
> themselves, Ian and Bob. I also predicted to them both,
> publicly I might
> add, that at the next meeting, the response would be no
> different than it
> was today. I attribute a lot of that to NuYawk apathy.
>
> So here's my question. Is this a common experience in other
> parts of the
> country? I would think that people who take the time to
> attend SAS LUG
> meetings (Local User Groups are affectionately known as LUGs)
> would also be
> interested in availing themselves of the riches of SAS-L,
> especially after
> being bombarded with testimonials at least four times a year
> (I do admit
> that the other NYASUG members at the meetings who ARE SAS-L
> subscribers
> help me in my crusade).
>
> This is not an urgent issue at all, but more of a
> SASiological one. It may
> be OT for SAS, but perhaps not for SAS-L.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ray
>
>
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