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.
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> 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.
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> Best,
> Nick
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> Nicholas Allott
> Postdoctoral research fellow (and RT list admin)
> CSMN
> University of Oslo
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> n.e.allott@csmn.uio.no
> nicholas.allott@gmail.com
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> 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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