Ted Leung wrote:
1. I've observed a lot of cross posting - the same message going to 2
(or more) mailing lists. If you happen to be subscribed to both
mailing lists, then you end up reading that message twice, or filing
it twice or some combination of both, which makes it hard to keep
things straight. I'm not sure how to address the cross posting
problem other than to ask people to consider whether they really need
to crosspost when they reply. Yes, it means that senders need to
edit To: and Cc: lines, but in mailing list environments such as ours,
we ought to be optimizing for readers, not writers. It may be that
we might need some additional/more tightly focused mailing lists --
I'd be interested to know if people think that would help.
If the e-mail I send is about a design issues but relates to Scooby &
Cosmo, I usually send To: design-list, Cc: scooby-dev & cosmo-dev, then
in the e-mail I would asked people to "Please respond to the design list
only!" at the top/bottom. That way if you just hit 'Reply' opposed to
'Reply all', it will automatically send to the design list. It's worked
on the most part...not a perfect system 'cause the down side, if some
people do "Reply-all', then you have two threads going. =(
If people can do a "highlight" (in bullet points) of what they're
saying, that would be helpful. Especially if they end up writing their
mini-biographies in D/F Chanlder/Scooby/Cosmo...etc. Or if there is a
"bottom line", a sort of 'what's your point' in writing this email?
-Priscilla
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