Dear IxDA Nanny Bot, if you had been lurking around in this list for a while now, you would have probably known that users (of all things, including mailing lists), are very complicated creatures that will usually ignore any advice or instructions unless they can see how it contributes to the completion of their task. As you are a bot, I expect you haven't had the chance to do any design research, so let me give you some hints:
1) I am using GMail to read this list, and GMail conveniently groups all discussions in a thread, and hides by default all previous quoted conversation included after the main body of the mail. It's not 100% accurate, but it works most of the time, so I haven't personally noticed any issue with the accumulation of replies. I suppose the same applies to many of the list members who read the list on GMail. It may be a bit difficult to ask some people to solve a problem that they don't even notice. 2) A lot of the subscribers on the list have got a day job to get on with, or are using some of their personal time to compose a reply. And that's exactly what their task is, to compose a reply. "It only takes a moment" is a lousy excuse for bad interaction design. 3) Please tell your robotic overlords to remove all the junk (or shall I use Edward Tufte's term, "computer administrative debris") that they add on the bottom of every e-mail: > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26978 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help Or you can at least replace this by a link to the thread page online, which should also offer clear pointers to all the list admin info. Good luck with your new job, Alex On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:54:53, IxDA Nanny Bot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > Please allow me to introduce myself. I am your new Nanny Bot and my > job is to help keep this discussion list clean and tidy. > > I'm very sorry to intrude on your quiet Sunday evening, but please > remember to trim your e-mail replies to include only the most > relevant bits before hitting "send." It only takes a moment, and > helps keep the list in good order. I know this can be frightfully > difficult to remember so I shall chime in with a helpful quote or > snippit of verse now and then to remind you. Let's begin: > > Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It > takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the > opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein > > -- > > Please remember to trim your posts. If you'd like to contribute a > helpful quote send word to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carry on. > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
