Finally the light dawns and the world turns. I've hoped for this for a couple of months.
You've brightened my day ever so slightly, tomorrow we will see. Being in San Francisco I will be able to judge. Let's see how we all do now :-) Regards, Dave On Sep 6, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Recently, my day has looked like this: > > I wake up, check my email, get a flurry of new posts from project > members in Europe. Since I'm reading them all at once, I naturally > respond to them all at once. > > This of course causes everyone in Europe to get a flurry if emails from me. > > A few hours later, Dennis, out in Seattle, wakes up, reads his email > and sees a bunch of emails from me, responding to a bunch of emails > from Europe. Like me (presumably), he reads them all at once and > responds. > > Then, at the end of my afternoon, Jean, in Australia, wakes up, checks > her email, and sees a mess, and starts responding. Presumably those > in Europe see these posts, plus any late posts from Dennis, a few > hours later, and then we repeat. > > I assume this perception is not mine alone, and happens to others, in > different orderings, depending on your time zone. > > We can't repeal timezones, of course. But I think we can improve the > situation a little. What I'm thinking I will start doing is: > > 1) When I wake up, I'm going to read all of my emails before I respond > to a single post. There is nothing really so urgent that it requires > an immediate response. And sometimes I'm surely going to find out > that someone already responded to the point I was going to make. > > 2) Instead of responding to multiple posts in a thread, I'll aggregate > my points, aim for one summary response per thread where possible. > > 3) I'll focus more. My priorities may not be the same as yours, but > I do have priorities. Not everything is equally important. I don't > need to comment on everything. > > If others can think about these observations, and maybe adopt related > practices, I think we'll make the mailing list much more digestible. > > Regards, > > -Rob
