tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 24 06:45:00 1994

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Sigh


Sigh.  Sigh, sigh, sigh.  I didn't read my mail over the weekend.  Now I'm
paying the price.  I've been reading mail seemingly forever, and I"m only
up to message 173, with easily 50 more to go.  I've had it for today.

Sigh.  40-50 messages a day is really too much.  I think people really need
to start introspecting about whether or not they need to respond to every
little last thing every time.  I KNOW we are seeing a LOT of duplicate
answering.  I do hope that everyone is sensibly reading everything they
receive before dashing off replies, lest the point they are about to make
has already been made.  People are being forced off the list simply because
they can't handle the volume of traffic.  Sigh.  I don't want to stiffle
anyone's free expression, or set up a lot of rules or guidelines or whatever,
but can't we all just be a little more sympathetic to this situation?  Here's
a simple for-instance:  do answers to the west coast gethering questionaire
really need to be posted publically to the list?  Couldn't they be sent by
private e-mail and have the results just summarized?  I dunno.  I don't have
a solution, just a plea to individuals to try to play a little heads up
ball.  Take that extra moment to think "do I really need to post this?  is
somebody else likely to give the same answer?  would e-mail be more appropriate?"
If the answer really is "Yes, I should post this!", then by all means do so.
But just a *little* bit more natural filtering would help a lot.

One very simple thing that might help, by the way, is:  if you have 5 small
points to make regarding 5 different things, how about bundling them all up
into one post, instead of 5 separate ones.  It would save 4 sets of headers,
4 rounds of .sig, and take up 4 less slots in an inbox.

Anyway, just a thought.  Obviously, these thoughts are really directed at the
major list participants, and is in NO way meant to deter or intimidate
newcomers or the many silent ones of you out there from jumping in.  I am
pleased that our signal-to-noise ratio is considered high (I agree that it is),
but it could be higher.  Clearly, I *only* want to limit the noise, not the
signal.

Hopefully I'll be caught up again by the end of the week.

Sigh.

			--Krankor

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