I'm not on the digest form but I found it boring to see replies saying 1B, 2C or any other combination of numbers and letters. It has always been the convention that replies to a survey are made direct to the person carrying it out. Having said that, even if I don't participate in the survey I am usually interested in seeing the result.
Just think about the Christmas card, bookmark exchanges and such like. Those wishing to participate always respond directly to the organiser. the rest of the list finds out who participated either through 'thank you' messages or by looking at the photographs on Jenny's web page. ________________________________ From: owner-l...@arachne.com <owner-l...@arachne.com> on behalf of Avital <spind...@gmail.com> Sent: 01 August 2016 04:16:35 To: H M Clarke Cc: Lace Subject: Re: [lace] ADMIN: Survey Request - please send privately Helen and others, I doubt that the data could be used for nefarious purposes. I also wouldn't describe Anna's response as "animosity". She says she was annoyed with the individual responses and that's a legitimate comment. I don't participate in surveys myself, so I had no interest in the outcome, whether on-list or off-list. My objection was to the three digests filled with survey answers. If a handful of people responded on the list and if their responses were a couple lines long, I would have no objections. What I was seeing, however, was 25+ lines per response. Our digests are only 10K. It's not a lot of fun to scroll through pages of previously seen material. OTOH, maybe I should stop enforcing the "Trim posts" rule. What do digest subscribers say? Please reply to me privately, if you have any thoughts one way or the other. Thanks, Avital Arachne moderator On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:55 AM, H M Clarke <hcl...@mac.com> wrote: > Wow, and people wonder why the list is so quiet these days. Sadly the animosity remains. I have been on this list for a very long time and have seen many ups and downs. Each down causes long term impact to the list members. > > I'm bringing the, totally voluntary, survey to an early end. I will send any analysis privately to those people who kindly - either privately or to the list - replied. I will not be troubling the list any further. > > Now, what nefarious deeds can I possibly use the information I have gleaned for? Hmm, I'm curious about that now ... > > Helen > -- Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/sets - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
