Re: Proposed new etiquette guidieline
At 04:55 PM 10/22/02, Nick Arnett wrote: Everyone, I'd like to offer a proposal to add a new guideline for list etiquette. Here it is: Please don't make multiple responses to the same thread, especially to the same author, in a short people of time. In other words, hold those replies until you see if you have more to say on the subject, then send all of your comments in one longer post, rather than a burst of shorter ones. Although this will decrease your alpha mail score, it will make the list more efficient for everyone... and perhaps help you to avoid redundant responses. Nick One possible problem with that suggestion that comes to mind is that some people may not have any idea that they will have more to say on the subject later. In fact, depending on when messages reach the list and when someone checks their mail, the message they reply to may indeed be the last one on that thread that they see at the time, only to have another one pop up after they send the reply to the first one . . . Not that I have anything against the spirit in which the suggestion is intended . . . --Ronn! :) I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last. --Dr. Jerry Pournelle ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Proposed new etiquette guidieline
Nick Arnett wrote: Everyone, I'd like to offer a proposal to add a new guideline for list etiquette. Here it is: Please don't make multiple responses to the same thread, especially to the same author, in a short people of time. In other words, hold those replies until you see if you have more to say on the subject, then send all of your comments in one longer post, rather than a burst of shorter ones. Although this will decrease your alpha mail score, it will make the list more efficient for everyone... and perhaps help you to avoid redundant responses. [Nitpick, the subject line is wrong I think it should be guideline. I'm not sure about the body but shouldn't it be a short amount of time, in stead of people?] As such I don't have a big problem with the suggestion. But did you consider that I for one wouldn't be able to post to this list under the proposed guideline? I'm not likely to catch up with my backlog any time soon, so putting this into practice will effectively shut me up. I won't be able to post on any of the longer going subjects with more than a certain amount of emails in one thread or that started a couple of days ago. I don't have time to read more than a few mails at a time, let alone follow a whole thread in one go. So I'd be totally unable to participate in any of the older or longer discussions. If this becomes a guideline I might as well unsub voluntarily since I don't see any point in being able to post only on trivialities because volume is too high or alpha mail statistics are at stake. Sonja GCU talking about trivialities. :o( ROU I really hate today ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Proposed new etiquette guidieline
Everyone, I'd like to offer a proposal to add a new guideline for list etiquette. Here it is: Please don't make multiple responses to the same thread, especially to the same author, in a short people of time. In other words, hold those replies until you see if you have more to say on the subject, then send all of your comments in one longer post, rather than a burst of shorter ones. Although this will decrease your alpha mail score, it will make the list more efficient for everyone... and perhaps help you to avoid redundant responses. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
