On 2/18/2011 11:30 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2011-02-17 9:18 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
The presence of archives, or people coming in to a discussion that's
already underway, is the main reason that mailing lists differ from
normal conversational e-mailing where there may well be only two
parties, or several people who have all been there since the beginning,
where everybody just needs to see the most recent addition to the
conversation (or occasionally look deeper into the material for
reference) and top posting is the most effective way to keep
communications going.
That makes much more sense on a FORUM...
But, Barbara, honestly, I guarantee you the vast majority of people who
participate on mail lists do not go to the archives to read entire
threads... ever. They come here to post a question and get an answer.
Understood. But we do have archives, and we do try to encourage people to use them. That's why I say
there's not ever likely to be a totally satisfactory solution to this.
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