At 04:55 PM 10/22/02, Nick Arnett wrote:
Everyone,I'd like to offer a proposal to add a new guideline for list etiquette. Here it is: Please don't make multiple responses to the same thread, especially to the same author, in a short people of time. In other words, hold those replies until you see if you have more to say on the subject, then send all of your comments in one longer post, rather than a burst of shorter ones. Although this will decrease your "alpha mail" score, it will make the list more efficient for everyone... and perhaps help you to avoid redundant responses. Nick
One possible problem with that suggestion that comes to mind is that some people may not have any idea that they will have more to say on the subject later. In fact, depending on when messages reach the list and when someone checks their mail, the message they reply to may indeed be the last one on that thread that they see at the time, only to have another one pop up after they send the reply to the first one . . .
Not that I have anything against the spirit in which the suggestion is intended . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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