discussion about discussions
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In a message dated 4/16/2002 7:21:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
fetteroll@... writes:
apparently allergic to <G>. I'm more guilty than anybody, probably, and I'll
try to do it from now on.
My PROBLEM is that I don't read them myself, not the subject lines or WHO the
posts are from. I respond and hit reply. Since I do have a tendency to change
subjects in mid-post <G>, I really will try to do the subject line switcheroo
when I do.
Then people can just skip subjects that they are not interested in -- the
danger being that people may NOT switch subject lines and it can get
annoying. I'm on a list where the moderators do sometimes switch the subject
lines and then send a post telling everyone they've done it and that people
might want to "catch up" on that discussion by reading the more recent posts
on whatever the subject line was switched FROM. (If that sentence made any
sense, maybe our moderators could do that for us, here too, if we continue to
be unable to handle it ourselves. I think we'd all appreciate it.)
--pamS
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fetteroll@... writes:
> The best tool we have is the delete key. Which applies to life too! OurThe best tool we have is changing the subject line - which we unschoolers are
> society is *so* overloaded by data, I think learning how to *not* read is
> as
> important as learning how to read! :-) And also learning how to filter what
> makes sense from what is just noise.
>
> We (listmembers) can't control what people decide is useful to them to
> discuss, but individually we can control what we decide to read. We
> moderators *try* to keep the discussion on the ideas rather than on the
> individuals expressing those ideas.
apparently allergic to <G>. I'm more guilty than anybody, probably, and I'll
try to do it from now on.
My PROBLEM is that I don't read them myself, not the subject lines or WHO the
posts are from. I respond and hit reply. Since I do have a tendency to change
subjects in mid-post <G>, I really will try to do the subject line switcheroo
when I do.
Then people can just skip subjects that they are not interested in -- the
danger being that people may NOT switch subject lines and it can get
annoying. I'm on a list where the moderators do sometimes switch the subject
lines and then send a post telling everyone they've done it and that people
might want to "catch up" on that discussion by reading the more recent posts
on whatever the subject line was switched FROM. (If that sentence made any
sense, maybe our moderators could do that for us, here too, if we continue to
be unable to handle it ourselves. I think we'd all appreciate it.)
--pamS
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Fetteroll
on 4/16/02 12:34 PM, PSoroosh@... at PSoroosh@... wrote:
subject and say, here, start replying to this?
(Right, like a need another job ;-) I'm trying to find ways to fix this so I
don't *need* to moderate! :-)
How about an automatic periodic reminder to do this? Would that be annoying?
Or I should say which is more annoying, the reminder or the unchanged
subjects?
Joyce
> I'm on a list where the moderators do sometimes switch the subjectHow do they do this? Do you mean they just copy an offtopic post, change the
> lines and then send a post telling everyone they've done it
subject and say, here, start replying to this?
(Right, like a need another job ;-) I'm trying to find ways to fix this so I
don't *need* to moderate! :-)
How about an automatic periodic reminder to do this? Would that be annoying?
Or I should say which is more annoying, the reminder or the unchanged
subjects?
Joyce
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Or I should say which is more annoying, the reminder or the unchanged
subjects?
Joyce
I'm on anotehr list where they set it up so that there is a tag line at the
end of every post that says, "Don't forget to trim your posts!" Everyone
remembers to trim, but sometimes forget the subject line.
SO,
maybe we could have one that says, "Don't forget to change the subject line
to reflect the thread!"
~Elissa Cleaveland
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein
subjects?
Joyce
I'm on anotehr list where they set it up so that there is a tag line at the
end of every post that says, "Don't forget to trim your posts!" Everyone
remembers to trim, but sometimes forget the subject line.
SO,
maybe we could have one that says, "Don't forget to change the subject line
to reflect the thread!"
~Elissa Cleaveland
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction
have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein
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In a message dated 4/16/2002 2:29:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
fetteroll@... writes:
hear this, Joyce, they sometimes go and pull all the posts on that topic and
repost them under the new subject line. That seems like overdoing it, though.
And people WILL keep responding the old subject line for a while, anyway, of
course. Not sure what the best solution is other than that we all just try to
remember to change it.
--pamS
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fetteroll@... writes:
> > I'm on a list where the moderators do sometimes switch the subjectYes - that's exactly what they do. Actually - you're not going to want to
> > lines and then send a post telling everyone they've done it
>
> How do they do this? Do you mean they just copy an offtopic post, change
> the
> subject and say, here, start replying to this?
>
hear this, Joyce, they sometimes go and pull all the posts on that topic and
repost them under the new subject line. That seems like overdoing it, though.
And people WILL keep responding the old subject line for a while, anyway, of
course. Not sure what the best solution is other than that we all just try to
remember to change it.
> (Right, like a need another job ;-) I'm trying to find ways to fix this so IOh yeah. I forgot <G>.
> don't *need* to moderate! :-)
>
--pamS
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Fetteroll
on 4/16/02 7:15 PM, ElissaJC@... at ElissaJC@...
wrote:
picture ad and few will see it unless they're interested in spy cameras and
such! ;-)
Joyce
wrote:
> I'm on anotehr list where they set it up so that there is a tag line at the*That's* easy enough to do. But unfortunately it will appear down past the
> end of every post
picture ad and few will see it unless they're interested in spy cameras and
such! ;-)
Joyce
Fetteroll
If anyone is annoyed by them -- they can be killers on slow connections! --
you can turn them off by:
Going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unschooling-dotcom/
Click on Edit My Membership.
Click on Do not convert to HTML
And then save the changes.
Then in your email program, find the Preferences (maybe under Edit?). Check
for Compose or Write or something similiar. Somewhere it should say
something about HTML and give you the option of sending out plain text.
I don't know if both of those are necessary but I'm only getting text ads
now.
If you're reading from the web, you *might* be able to turn them off by
again going to Preferences. On Internet Explorer there's a set of
Preferences called Web Content under Web Browser. Under Page Content there's
a bunch of check boxes next to Show Pictures and Animate GIFs. (Other
browsers should have some options somewhere about pictures.)
Of course that turns off pictures on other web pages too so you'll need to
keep turning them off and on. :-/
Joyce
you can turn them off by:
Going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unschooling-dotcom/
Click on Edit My Membership.
Click on Do not convert to HTML
And then save the changes.
Then in your email program, find the Preferences (maybe under Edit?). Check
for Compose or Write or something similiar. Somewhere it should say
something about HTML and give you the option of sending out plain text.
I don't know if both of those are necessary but I'm only getting text ads
now.
If you're reading from the web, you *might* be able to turn them off by
again going to Preferences. On Internet Explorer there's a set of
Preferences called Web Content under Web Browser. Under Page Content there's
a bunch of check boxes next to Show Pictures and Animate GIFs. (Other
browsers should have some options somewhere about pictures.)
Of course that turns off pictures on other web pages too so you'll need to
keep turning them off and on. :-/
Joyce