COMM: Re: [Sigia-l] community

[Russ Unger]

I second Ziya's thoughts and will only add that adding all of prefacing
tends to add a lot of moderating and coaching to new users--I mean, does
anyone really read all the instructions to anything anymore?  It sounds
like a great notion, but also sounds like it carries a lot of overhead
that, ultimately, someone will have to be responsible for and a lot of
people will inadvertantly violate.  I'm sure we're not all only on this
particular list, which means a learning curve for this list, etc...
Hell, it's still hard enough to remember to hit 'reply all' and then
delete out the original posters email to get the message to go back to
the list.

Russ

PS - If you can answer "yes" to that, I encourage you to think about the
friend/relative who still has (gasp) a VCR and its got a flashing 12:00
on it.

> > I do think that it is not only polite, but beneficial to 
> the community
> > for people to add metadata to the Subject line giving an 
> indication of
> > what lies within. Based on your message, I propose that 
> messages about
> > the list be prefaced COMM, for community.
> 
> I don't have any opinion on whether this is a good thing or 
> not, other than
> noting that in my 15 years online I haven't seen it work 
> consistently or
> effectively for any stretch of time on any list/community I 
> followed. (I
> don't mind seeing an [ADV] for the <shameless plug> type of posts, for
> instance.) The funny thing is that I almost skipped this post 
> as being a
> 'COMMercial' message (which would have been a pity as I ended 
> up liking its
> content). For others, COMM may connote COMMunications, etc.