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Re: An appeal for brevity on the Sarge/SC threads



zinie@cs.unibo.it (Enrico Zini) writes:

> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:16:48PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
>
>> > Brevity would be *extremely* useful here.  I quit being able to follow
>> > the thread way before it blew up earlier this week.
>> If you can't follow the current volume, and are unwilling to give it enough
>> time, then don't even try, and just unsubscribe.
>> This is not something that can be changed.
>
> I'd say it could very well be damn useful to eventually be able to cope
> with this problem differently than "unsubscribe if you can't read mail
> for 5 hours a day".  If we accept participation to be impossible (or
> very hard) for many, then there is a sound justification for the Debian
> Cabal debate to come out from time to time.
>
> Example strategies could be learning how to isolate positions and topics
> and split and retitle threads, or having someone ("mailing list
> secretaries"?) writing regular summaries of the hottest discussions and
> the various views that are expressed in big and important threads.

I think DWN does already cover this to a certain extend.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario



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