[bksvol-discuss] Re: Reducing List Messages

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:24:59 -0800 (PST)

Good suggestion, Donna, and one I've been trying to
follow myself, though I haven't always been
successful. 

Cindy

> Hi all.
> 
>  
> 
> I am respectfully requesting that we all please try
> to reduce the number of
> list messages.  I know this topic has come up
> repeatedly, and I'm not trying
> to stifle discussion, even off-topic discussion, but
> I am pleading with you
> all to read through all messages and respond with
> one message per thread
> instead of answering each message as you read it.  I
> understand that
> sometimes a back-and-forth exchange occurs when one
> person posts a message
> which is shortly answered by someone else, and the
> first person responds to
> that and so forth, but it is very obvious when
> that's happening and when
> it's just the case that someone is checking e-mail
> and answering each
> message as it's read instead of reading through the
> collection of 15-20
> messages and then responding to each thread with a
> single message.  
> 
>  
> 
> I love being a BookShare volunteer and I find the
> information available on
> this list to be invaluable.  I also enjoy reading
> about what other
> volunteers are up to such as going on vacation or
> getting married or
> starting new jobs.  I'm on other lists and I have
> moved the unmanageable
> ones to another e-mail account so I don't have to
> wade through all those
> messages every time I want to do a quick check of
> personal e-mail, but the
> down side is that those lists don't get read very
> often either.  This is
> really not an unmanageable list, and I want to keep
> up with it regularly.
> Please, please let's try to be respectful of cyber
> space and time.  
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you for considering this request.
> 
>  
> 
> Peace and Hope,
> 
>  
> 
> Donna
> 
> 



                
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