[StBernard] nola forum

[Westley Annis]

Rodney,

This forum has always been meant as a two-way means of communication, just
with a bit of moderation involved.

Trying to gather and collect the information that people are looking for
could be a full-time job, but since this is a volunteer operation there are
no funds to hire anyone to do that.  Instead, we rely on each other to find
information and pass it on to the rest of the group.

Do opinions get shared? Yes and I do think it adds to appeal of the list.

Without some of the conversations that do take place, we would probably be
down to under five emails a day.  We also would probably end up not doing
anything more than just sending out the same news articles and press
releases you could get from the Times-Picayune.  This forum allows us all to
still retain some sense of being St. Bernard neighbors.  Instead of only
talking with the four or five families that live next-door to you or across
the street, you get to talk to over 600 families from through out the
parish.

I realize not everyone is use to a high-volume list such as this one and it
can take some getting used to.  Personally, I get close to 500 emails a day,
half of which are junk/spam and are deleted automatically by my email
program.  Of the remaining 250, at least half of those are junk that slips
through and needs me to manually delete them, leaving me with about 100 good
emails.

I also belong to other email lists where I do just delete some of the
messages without reading them.  It's all part of the process.

Westley

-----Original Message-----


Jer, maybe we need an opinion link to this site. Keep all important info on
this site and you and the other 3-4 that put 90% of the comments on this
site can shoot the breeze.
RB

-----Original Message-----

 RB, if it turns into a NOLA, it's because it's provoked by insensitivity to
our thoughts, opinions and ideas which would be stifled into someone who is
"bored" with other's feelings. If you choose to delete 10-15 e-mails, then
so be it. I don't read every post and neither should it be "mandatory"
for
anyone in this manner.

This is a great resource because it is "complete" with everything from
"healing issues" to venting, from information presented by Westley and a
score of others. We're on track, so how did you, RB, get side-tracked?
It
cannot be one-sided, one politically factioned induced or anything that
resembles a forum that preaches one thought-provoked side-of-the-coin.
We're
doing it right. So follow along and you'll learn much about people, places
and things needed on this great resource for learning.

Jer.