On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 23:04:37 -0700
Roger B A Klorese <Roger> wrote:
> J C Lawrence wrote:
>> Does the current product no longer attribute to "you"?
> It does attribute to "you."
Damn. They had that fixed for a while for group replies. That's
probably the single most common reason for my rejecting messages from
Eudora as a moderator.
>> I disallow it on my lists and have my SPAM filters set to score it as
>> noise. So far as a filter that's worked quite well, especially on
>> the level of distinguishing "messages I want to read" vs "generic
>> list noise".
> Funny, nearly all of our business mail looks that way, and people get
> nagged at if they bottom-post on work mail for making people read
> context before the additions.
<shrug>
>> I tend to have a different view of top posting and its effect on
>> conversation, especially for lists. I find that top posting
>> discourages thread detail and depth by effectively forbidding the
>> debate or analysis of finely defined points, that it encourages
>> pomposity and bombast rather than discourse, that it encourages
>> retort instead of considered reply, and that it discourages useful
>> thread splits and forks while encouraging thread dissolution.
> I find that most people are not interested in participating in that
> sort of discussion anyway...
<nod>
Oddly enough, and for the same reasons, I'm equally uninterested in
their posts, both as a list member and moderator. Funny that.
> ... on anything other than a tightly-focused topic list (of which
> there are fewer and fewer) of technical substance (whether
> computer-related or for serious students of some other
> discipline).
Sadly true. I tend to be a fan of what I call "working lists" -- lists
which actually attempt to do and accomplish something -- which heavily
selects for such traits.
> That accounts for, oh, about 10% of the lists I'm on and about 1% of
> the lists we host.
Of the ~600 lists I'm on it probably accounts for over 90%, but then I
tend to rapidly unsubscribe from the less focussed lists. I find them
too annoying to stay with.
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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