[bksvol-discuss] Re: Holding Down the Traffic
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:16:30 -0700 (PDT)
Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned
list available at sites below
Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
Books Being Scanned List:
https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
--- On Fri, 9/11/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Holding Down the Traffic
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 11:01 AM
> Well, I don't know about
> others, but it seems to me that the best way to deal with my
> email is to read and respond to it in the order that it
> arrived. I suppose I could make my way through all of
> it and save the ones I had a reply for, but that would tend
> to tax my memory and give me a problem keeping ttrack of
> them. The result is that often I reply to a message and a
> few more messages down the queue I see that someone has
> already made the same reply I did. Or, I might ask a
> question and read a few messages and find out that someone
> has already answered it. Yes, that makes for redundant posts
> and it is another thing that keeps the list traffic high,
> but it seems to me that it would be asking too much to have
> everyone read everything in their in box before replying to
> anything.
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> "The end
> may justify the means as long as there is something that
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> 9/11/2009 10:08:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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> I like to know what people are scanning and what's
> being added to the
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> wishlist.
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> However, I think that books that were just approved into
> the collection, not
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> including John's daily list, could be forwarded to just
> Cindy and Judy.
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> Assuming that's all right with them, of course.
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> There is one trend I've noticed that seems to be
> diminishing and I wanted to
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> say thank you to y'all for that.
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> Often times, when someone asks a question, several people
> reply with the
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> same information. This doesn't seem to be happening
> as much anymore which
>
> is a great thing.
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> Christina
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Melissa Smith" <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>
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> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:56 AM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Holding Down the Traffic
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> Agree 100%, Mary. I joined the volunteer list, because I
> was interested
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> in volunteering, not general discussion. To me,
> volunteering discussion
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> involves all of these things you mention. Other than Cindy,
> Carrie, and
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> the volunteers who include their emails in the comments
> sections of
>
> books they've submitted, I have no other way of
> contacting other
>
> volunteers about volunteer related issues. I feel that
> things like book
>
> recommendations, ETC belong on the bookshare discuss list.
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> Melissa
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> Mayrie ReNae wrote:
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> > Hi everyone,
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> > I disagree heartily with Roger. I think that
> single messages
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> > about books being scanned, books with which folks need
> help, requests
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> > for proofreaders, requests for the wish list and the
> like belong on
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> > the volunteer list. I would much rather see the two
> and three day
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> > long discussions of just about anything stopped
> altogether than
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> > stopping messages like the ones I mention that
> actually have to do
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> > with volunteering for bookshare.
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> > Mayrie
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> > *From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Cindy
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> > *Sent:* Friday, September 11, 2009 12:50 AM
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> > *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Holding Down the
> Traffic
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> >
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> > switching such items to the bookshare discuss list
> rather than the
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> > volunteer list would help
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> > Cindy
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> > Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection)
> and
>
> > books-being-scanned list available at sites below
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> > Wish List:
> https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List
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> > Books Being Scanned List:
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> https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
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> > --- On *Thu, 9/10/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> /<Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>/*
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> > wrote:
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> > From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
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> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Holding Down the
> Traffic
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> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 8:25 PM
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> >
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> > I have finally caught up with my email. I
> don't know how long that
>
> > will last though. It would not surprise me if I
> logged on tomorrow
>
> > and found another hundred plus messages waiting
> for me. That is
>
> > why I would like to make a few suggestions
> concerning holding down
>
> > list traffic. By no means do I want to try to
> squelch off topic
>
> > threads even though they could stand to be held
> down a little.
>
> > Besides, the next time I start one I can always
> say that everybody
>
> > else is doing it. However, there are a few
> kinds of messages we
>
> > could do easily without. For one thing, I think
> that messages
>
> > announcing that a title should be added to or
> removed from the
>
> > books being scanned list could be sent
> privately to Cindy. Other
>
> > messages that are clearly list business but do
> not need to be seen
>
> > by everyone on the list might be handled that
> way too. It would be
>
> > good if you could think of whether it could or
> not before you
>
> > post. Also, there are a lot of messages that
> contain nothing but
>
> > thank you or congratulations or chuckle and
> every now and then a
>
> > message that entirely consists of LOL. I really
> do not see that
>
> > these serve any purpose at all, but if you
> think they do then
>
> > those might be sent privately too. I just ask
> you to think before
>
> > you click the send button and ask yourself if
> this message either
>
> > contributes to the purpose of the list or to
> the off topic thread
>
> > in which you are participating. I think that
> part of the problem
>
> > is that there are just a lot of subscribers
> here and that on a
>
> > smaller list those kind of messages would be
> hardly noticed but
>
> > when so many people are sending them it can
> really fill up the in
>
> > box fast. Now, even as I have been typing this
> I hear the sound of
>
> > arriving email, so here I go falling behind
> again.
>
> >
>
> >
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> > "The end may justify the means as long as
> there is something that
>
> > justifies the end.
>
> > " Leon Trotsky
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> >
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> > The Militant:
> http://www.themilitant.com
>
> > <http://wwww.themilitant.com>Pathfinder
> Press:
>
> > http://www.pathfinderpress.com
>
> > Granma International:
> http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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