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
