RE: RT list: To the relevance list administrator

I am on the relevance list because I want to keep abreast of current
questions, interests, and developments in Relevance Theory.

It is not a chat-line, but a means of asking questions about RT and
receiving relevant replies.

Can we please exercise self-discipline to keep it to this?

Thanks,

Ronnie

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From: owner-relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dan Sperber
Sent: 16 January 2010 21:51
To: Nicholas Allott
Cc: Relevance List
Subject: Re: RT list: To the relevance list administrator

All this is ridiculous. The list is being abused. I don't see what ethical
or political principle is being upheld by accepting this abuse.

Dan

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Nicholas Allott <nicholas.allott@gmail.com>
wrote:

I've looked into this a bit. Other mailing lists that have daily digests
consolidate all the emails from everyone during a certain period --
typically a day -- and send them together as one email at the end of that
period. One can subscribe to the ordinary feed, in which case one gets
emails as they come, or to the daily feed. We don't do this at present, but
if list members would like it I can ask the technical staff at UCL if this
is possible with the software they use.

I haven't found any mailing list which consolidates emails per contributor
per day. I imagine the reason is that it would become very hard to follow
replies in discussions between contributors.

Best,
Nick

Nicholas Allott
Postdoctoral research fellow (and RT list admin)
CSMN
University of Oslo

n.e.allott@csmn.uio.no
nicholas.allott@gmail.com

An idea: Merging multiple missives from the same contributor and sending
them out as *one* mail at the end of the day. That way list members don't
get our current dose of 5-10 daily missives from the same person clogging
our mail accounts... Would this be doable?

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