[Ilugc] too much policing?
- From: lgp171188@xxxxxxxxx (Guruprasad)
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:54:03 +0530
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Arun Prakash <arunprakash.pts at gmail.com>
wrote:
You are right. I feel that people who uses the mail less frequent do not
read all the mails . So they make mistakes. Since most people are using
gmail, priority inbox do not give importance for replies , when the main
content is unread.
When a person posts on this list, I guess they will be reading the
replies in the thread they started/participated in, so that they can
get the answers for their question(s). So when someone tells tells the
person to use the correct posting style, I guess it would be read, as
it is a reply to *their* post. We try to remind people about the
mailing list guidelines so that they can learn from their mistakes,
instead of the ideal 'learn from others mistakes'.
So people using less frequent do not actually read messages , when the
topic is not interested.So we must do some alternative to insist ethics
, like specifying mistake tag in subject line or like.
When we really want ethics , we must remind them in some other means.
One option would be to send personal mails to the person explaining in
detail. But when someone is using "priority inbox" which has its own
super-secret algorithm, how can one be sure that the email will be
read? That is why we remind people in the same thread so that there is
a better chance of people reading it, assuming that in the real world
people would want to read replies in the threads that they have
started/participated in. So in-thread reminders, monthly reminders and
listing the guidelines in the welcome mail are the best options imho
as of now. If you have better, feasible ways to do this and get better
results, do let us know. Till then, I don't think repeated efforts to
educate the ignorant members of the list will have to continue.
Thanks & Regards,
Guruprasad
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