-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon August 21 2006 19:43, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Saturday 19 August 2006 6:47 am, M. Fioretti wrote:
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On a high traffic mailing list "form over content" is essential for ACTUAL EFFICIENCY. If posts are always properly titled, trimmed as much as possible, bottom posted, threads not hijacked, OT threads asked to stop immediately etc.... both learning (even from the archives) and giving help become much EASIER and FASTER. That's it, whether you like it or not.
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Quite right!! I don't have time to read all the mail that comes in daily when a thread isn't easy to follow, that is someone posts at the top and fouls it all up. Mail not properly posted gets ignored......I don't have time for it. It's really a matter of common sense.
Fred
Pretty much says it like it is. Those that don't understand the way the list works need to learn the patterns of socialization. This list alone generates hundreds of posts a day. Pair this with other list and email from other sources and ones inbox gets full rather quickly. Top posting is a no no, but that can be overlooked in many cases. However highjacking threads is a lot like cutting in line - not to mention that it really does hose the archives and makes it very hard for those that rely on the archives to solve problems. People that think others are being anal about this need to understand that there has been a method that has been used quite successfully for many many years. To think that new members should be allowed to change things is incorrect. The new members are the ones that need to understand and adapt to the list - not the otherway around. It can be useful resources (and in the past was very much so). Just my $0.02. Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! "The only problem with capitalism is capitalists, they're so damn greedy!" President Herbert Hoover -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE6nKx7CQBg4DqqCwRAsWSAKDWIixMebZ1o9fb3mEoGShcN7ezKwCffPNu aOzk8gFe1cLuh1/K04CQYNc= =fOHO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----