list slowdown

António Marques · 16 Aug 2010, 22:36 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:36:16 +0100
Subject: (urth) list slowdown
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Mark Millman<markjmillman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Ranjit has asked, more than once, that people limit themselves to five
>> messages per day, but apparently very few people have heeded him.
>
> I'm trying. And this topic seems important enough to use my fourth (I
> believe) for the day.
>
> I agree with Mark. The list is getting a little out of hand, and a lot
> of the current discussion seems to be an elevated version of "No it
> isn't!" "Yes it is!"

I also think Mark is right. Not because I believe in some sort of 
control, but because this isn't a chatroom. I guess the idea here is 
that messages should present novel content, and that in a clear and 
concise way. Just so the archives dont end up with 100000 iterations of 
arguments that actually say next to nothing. That's tiresome and 
time-consuming to wade through. If we keep to saying things once and not 
forcing others to repeat theirs, it might be a lot more productive. 
Including not debating endlessly what the text says without looking at 
the text. If nothing else, amazon.com is our friend with its 'search 
inside' feature.

> (The mailers that start new threads automatically don't help either,
> but I'm not sure what can be done about that.)

Why can't people just 'reply' to 'urth at lists.urth.net' and be done with 
it? So far I've gotten the idea that the new thread thing is due to 
something they do for their own convenience. I may be wrong.

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