gmail threads messages by topic by default which reduces clutter and takes a lot of the pain out of cleanup :)
jim On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Hugh Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:24:26 +1000 > John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2009/10/6 Liz <[email protected]>: >> > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jeff Price wrote: >> >> G'day all, >> >> >> >> Any chance folks could take some conversations offline, or batch >> >> up their 15 emails into a single email? I presume I'm not the >> >> only one who has pretty well stopped paying any real attention to >> >> the talk-au list because its carrying on like a Twitter feed. >> >> >> >> Jeff. >> > if you get the list emailed as a digest ( an option you can set at >> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au ) you have that >> > easily. >> > > This makes it difficult to take part in conversations in a thread-safe > way. > >> Alternatively emails can be either sent to a new mail account just for >> mailing list(s) emails or filtered differently from personal emails. >> > > I'm sorry, you've got the onus for change on completely the wrong side. > The "tweeters" are the offending parties in this case, and also in the > minority. They should adapt their behaviour to those of us who follow > standard behavioural norms and who consider others, instead of the > other way around. > > There are more suitable channels, as Jeff pointed out, or start your > own list. > > The serious effect of this chatter, whether I digest or not, is that I > miss a lot of important stuff because it's buried in the noise, which I > tend to skim. Please think it through with other people and the > net(work) effect in mind. > > Wiki vote, perhaps? > > Cheers, hopefully not for the last time. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > -- _________________ Jim Croft ~ [email protected] ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ... ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
