I got the Nanny-bot message this morning and wasn't too happy with the language. It's actually an automated message that gets sent to the list periodically from the mail server, set up a while back by a frustrated moderator. I probably would have done the same thing.
I've honestly never understood why, on any e-mail list, the list manager didn't trim posts automatically. Gmail seems to do this elegantly, so a machine must be able to get it right *somewhere*. I've also gotten frustrated, on certain other lists, having to remember to thunk my mail client to "Plain text" so that my (already plain text) message wouldn't get rejected from a list, just because it was MIME formatted. Anything that serves to make the machine's life easier gets in the way of an interaction, and these things should be taken care of by the machines themselves. Of course, I say that as our board's technical lead, so ultimately this task would fall under me. Me and my big mouth :). Anyway, just a little something I'm thinking about for the long-term ... - Nasir ________________________________________________________________ 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
