hello, On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:11:44PM -0500, Thomas Narten wrote: > Folks, > > The stats George posted are well worth thinking hard about. > > When there are so many postings on a list in such a short time, the > following is inevitable: > > - folks don't read them all anymore. I'm sure folks make decisions on > which messages to delete unread based on their opinion of an > individual poster's typical signal-to-noise ratio based on recent > and past postings. In other words, if you want other people to read > your postings (which I would assume is the point), less is often > more.
Yes, this is the case.
A thread such as the one (well, the three) about usage of site-local
addresses is simply unreadable. When such thread reaches that amount
of volume, I can't but delete it completely or just select a few key
writers, based on past experience, and read messages near the end of
subthreads hoping that they're citing key arguments of other posters
when answering.
Not finding this, I either have to base my opinion on my own bias or
just ignore the issue completely.
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