[macvoiceover] Re: IMPORTANT! FROM THE LIST ADMIN, off topic messages, please read!

Neal, I'm certainly not Keith, and I'm not a moderator, but I would think like this. We're all using VoiceOver, so any questions that we have concerning the Mac on this list are going to inevitably involve VoiceOver. Just my $.02 worth 
On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Neal Ewers wrote:
Keith, Thanks, I understand what you are trying to do and my question was not meant to be negative in any way, but this does raise a more general issue. Some of the questions people ask on this list have as much to do with learning the Mac as they do with the specifics of VoiceOver. Given that many of us are on this Mac learning curve, would you suggest that we find another list on which to ask more general Mac questions? If so, can 
you direct me to such a list?
Please understand, I am not trying to be picky here, I am, however, trying 
to give you what you want, but that requires asking a few questions.

Neal



-----Original Message-----
From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Reedy
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:58 PM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: IMPORTANT! FROM THE LIST ADMIN, off topic
messages, please read!

Hi Neal,

As for me, I would think that this is a Voiceover question.
Neal, I don't want to drive this thing in to the ground, I am just trying to 
get us all to filter our messages before they go out on the list, ok?

Keith Reedy


On Apr 28, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Neal Ewers wrote:


Hi Keith.  It seems to me that, especially for beginners like myself,
it is sometimes hard to know if you are asking a VoiceOver question as 
apposed to a general Mac question.  Take my following post for
example.


Hi all,  Do I just have a slow computer?  On the BCT page, if I press
control option command H to go to headers, it takes about 5 seconds to 
get to each header.  When I try to bring up a link list, it takes
about 30 seconds. Anyone else have this problem? I'm guessing my Mac 
Mini is not the fastest kid on the planet?  Thanks.  And thanks for
the help on finding the preferences.

Neal

Now, I have no clue if this is caused by VoiceOver, or if it is a
general
Mac question.  I would certainly agree that it doesn't teach people
about
using VoiceOver directly, but if there are problems regarding slow-
downs
that perhaps result  when using VoiceOver, this is, I think, a
question that
VoiceOver users need to know.

So, tell me where the thin line is here and I will be happy to abide.

Thanks for dealing with this issue.

Neal



-----Original Message-----
From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Reedy
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:41 PM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] IMPORTANT! FROM THE LIST ADMIN, off topic
messages,
please read!

Hi folks,

Boy, I hate to write these kind of messages.

Last week we had several hundred messages come over the list and
several of
them according to the list guidelines were off topic.

First of all, lets take a look at what we are trying to do with this
list
and that is to learn and USE Voiceover with the MAC, so when you
write your
message, ask your self, does this have anything to do with learning
and
using Voiceover with the MAC? If it does not, please put the letters
"OT"
for offtopic, in the subject line, so that the rest of us can choose
to read
it or not.

Folks, please help me with this.  This list has become a great place
to
learn about Voiceover, but, we can't learn with helpful messages
intermixed
with off topic messages.

This list will soon reach 100 members and we can be a help to many
if we
will just stay with in the guidelines.

Thank you so much.

Keith Reedy, list admin


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