From: Jeremy Bond Shepherd (jbond_at_jameswhale.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 01:23:22 PDT
The wise and learned Robert Benschop <rbenschop_at_euronet.nl> wrote:
> And like every time this subject comes up the conclusions seems to be
> the same;
> some OT is fine but if the thread becomes to heated (in general
> political) or drags on for too long (or worse, those two combined) it
> becomes quite boring for the rest.
Agreed! And I'll add to that: in my humble experience the whole mailing
list concept works much, MUCH better if you subscribe to the DIGEST
version. That way, you get 1-3 e-mails per day instead of, say 12-30. I
vastly prefer Usenet groups for this kind of discussion, however, I
acknowledge that some folks are more comfortable reading and replying
to messages via e-mail instead of Usenet. In this case, I encourage
them to investigate a DIGEST subscription to the mailing list instead
of the normal, default method. I fact, I wonder whether setting user
default subscriptions to DIGEST mode would make the majority of folks
happier than defaulting to regular mode... Hmmmmmmm....... points to
ponder.
-Jeremy
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