On 5/7/12 8:45 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
One thing that might help is if everybody would get in the habit of scanning
all their mail before responding to anything. The idea is that if a
discussion explodes while you are sleeping (or away from your mail for
whatever reason), you will learn that a topic has exploded before you
contribute your wise-ass or me-too comment. Even if your answer is technical
and valuable, you might notice that somebody has already said exactly what
you were about to say.
AN interesting comment..
I wonder if the nature of email and how it gets read has any effect on
usenet lists.
Think back to expensive dialup days.. you'd dial up, download the batch,
and then hangup. So you'd go through all the mail (almost like a
digest) before responding.
Now zap forward and you're reading on an iPhone, which tends to promote
a more "interactive" style of usage.
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