Re: RT list: To the relevance list administrator

I agree totally with Dan on this and thank him for voicing it.
Robyn

2010/1/16 Dan Sperber <dan.sperber@gmail.com>:
> 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
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> 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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