P3D Re: Mailing lists

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:22 AM 3/31/99 , you wrote:
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>>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 07:49:10 -0700
>>From: Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: P3D Re: Mailing lists
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>>I don't know what Linda's answer would be, but for myself, I prefer the BIG
>>LIST because then everybody was seeing all the messages.  
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>That's just it. The driving force of this recent push toward merging the lists
>is not primarily for the convenience of the people wanting to merge them -
>it's so they can force everybody to read their posts, whether they're 
>interested in that topic or not. There *are* people who subscribe to some of
>the lists but not others, because they are only interested in particular
>topics, or because they don't want to receive the full volume of traffic.
>Forcing the lists to merge would be doing a disservice to those people.
>
>For those who are inconsiderate enough to want to force everybody to receive
>their posts, I would say they can practice their inconsiderateness now by
>posting to all of the lists regardless of topic. That will provide those
>of us who subscribe to multiple lists the added benefit of receiving your
>message several times, just in case we missed the first one. :-)

I don't see why you have to characterize me and others as "inconsiderate"
or wanting to "force everybody to receive their posts".  All I said was
that I preferred the old way of having one list, because there was more
discussion and more interaction.  I learned a LOT from reading posts which
I might have missed had I excluded them based on the subject line.  I
believe many others also read, and even responded to, "tangential" posts,
and sometimes learned new things or found new interests.  In any case, I've
never had any problem deleting messages which are not of interest.

I could just as easily characterize you as "dictatorial" or "narrow minded"
because you want to pigeon hole all the topics, and force everybody to
decide where their postings belong.  But I won't.

>Now of course there will be some people who would *like* to force everybody
>to receive their posts, but are afraid it would look tacky for them to post
>a digital 3D message, for example, to the RBT list. But if the lists are
>forced to merge, then they can enjoy the convenience of being inconsiderate
>*without* looking tacky, because the merger forces everyone to be equally
>inconsiderate. (I don't have much sympathy for this crowd - if people want
>to indulge in being inconsiderate, I think it should be made clear that that's
>what they're doing.)

I don't understand your concern here.  I haven't seen any evidence that
people want to deliberately annoy others or flout the rules.  I haven't
seen any cross-posting to inappropriate lists, etc.  What makes you think
there are such people?

-pd


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