RE: WiFi coverage of low density residential communities?

Ken,

You need to learn to summarize.  This could have been a simple two-line
email, similar to what I am writing now.  Also, you may want to research
the definition of "condescending".  I found your email quite rude.



- Casey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Meyer
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:59 PM
> To: SeattleWireless Talk List; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: WiFi coverage of low density residential communities?
> 
> Brad --
> 
> Can it possibly be that, here in the 21st century, you have 
> not yet absorbed how a mailing list works, or do I 
> misinterpret your question?
> 
> Just to be sure you understand: when you sign-up for a mail 
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> Of course, once you find someone that you wish to have a 
> detailed conversation with, that you may think will not be of 
> interest to, or appropriate to share with, the entire group, 
> you may send mail to that individual alone and hope that 
> he/she will be inclined to make the effort to respond to you 
> (they usually will).
> 
> However, mail lists may be configured differently, so that 
> different things happen when you click on "Reply", and even 
> "Reply All".  Sometimes a "Reply"
> will be directed to the group only, and sometimes to the 
> individual poster only.  "Reply All" may apply both the 
> individual and the group addresses to the "To-field" in the 
> mail form, or it may send just to the group.  There are 
> rationales for these differences, but they are not material 
> here (and there's really not much you can do about it, given 
> the typical nature of System Administrators).
> 
> The seattlewireless.net lists transmit messages to the entire 
> group, and only the group, whatever choice you make.  If you 
> want to correspond "off-line" with just the poster of a 
> message you are responding to, you need to copy his address 
> out of the ORIGINAL message, BEFORE you click on "Reply"
> (where it disappears), and then paste that address in place 
> of the group's address in the new message form that is 
> created for your response.
> 
> On other lists I belong to, "Reply All" will fill-in both the 
> individual's and the group's addresses, and you have to 
> choose which to delete, if any.
> It may be annoying for some to receive two messages in 
> response to theirs:
> both the individual's address and the group copies.  On the 
> other hand, if the individual uses the digest (the batch form 
> of responses from the list), I will often include him/her 
> individually, so that they will see the message sooner, and 
> it will not be buried in a perhaps long list of messages in 
> the digest.  There's an art to everything, and there is value 
> added if you understand it.
> 
> By the way, if you are not satisfied with this group, please 
> follow the link at the bottom of every message to the page 
> where you can unsubscribe.  Don't just post a general message 
> to the group in the nature of "Please unsubscribe me".  That 
> is very bad form in e-list circles and may earn you a rude 
> response or two.
> 
> I hope that I have not told you a bunch of things you already 
> know well; there's no attempt here to be condescending -- 
> only informative in a methodical manner.
> 
> Ken Meyer
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of brad williamson
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:18 AM
> To: SeattleWireless Talk List; 'SeattleWireless Talk List'
> 
> Subject: RE: WiFi coverage of low density residential communities?
> 
> Ralph,
> 
> Why do I seem to be getting responses to questions from someone else?
> This is the fourth
> one I've recieved from Seattlewireless in a week?   I did 
> attempt to get
> involved with
> Seattlewireless Talk last week, but having almost nothing to 
> do with the mail I've been getting in my mailbox.  I never 
> asked, for instance, about "wifi coverage of low density 
> residential communities", the subject of this email.
> Thanks for any help clearing this up,
> 
> B Williams
> 
> On Thu, 19 May 2005 08:51:00 -0700, "Ralph Sims" <[email protected]> said:
> 
> > I don't know how low-density the City is thinking about.
> >
> > 
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002280448_wifi19.html
> >
> > > Dense metro area examples like city of Spokane's 100 
> blocks of WiFi 
> > > differ from the low density of residential communities.  
> Has anyone 
> > > references covering applications of implementing WiFi 
> coverage for 
> > > low density residential communities who have not been able to 
> > > receive DSL?
> 
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