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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:16:07 -0500
- Reply-To: stephen@bokonon.uucp
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- From: stephen@BOKONON.UUCP
- Subject: Re: List traffic
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- [BEWARE: The following contains OPINIONS]
-
- Joe suggests that the readership do things like not posting non-Novell
- queries here, not posting "me too"s, not including excessive portions
- of previous posts, shorter .signatures, checking other sources of
- information (FAQs, vendor BBSes, *gasp* manuals, etc.) first, etc.
-
- The only problem is that net.experience shows that very few people
- actually _do_ this common-sense stuff. All of this stuff falls under
- the category of net.etiquette. Unfortunately, it's a scarce commodity
- on the net. Always has been, as far as I can tell (but I've only been
- net.connected for four years), and always will be.
-
- I run the FAQs for biz.sco.general. I have two FAQs: an admin
- one, with net.etiquette etc., and a technical one, with real questions
- and answers. Guess which one is larger? I'd like to think it makes
- a difference, but I'm not sure it does. For further evidence,
- look in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica if you get it, and count the
- percentage of posts that are discussion, which belongs in another
- group.
-
- $ Please regard this as just my opinion on the volume; I read every msg.
-
- Personally, I like to at least scan every message. However, on days
- when the volume builds up, I scan the Subject: lines only and delete
- stuff I'm not interested in. And there's another good point: people,
- PLEASE put Subject: lines in. If I'm in a hurry, the following will
- automatically get deleted:
-
- - messages entitled (No subject given)
- - messages that are all in capitals and therefore hard to read
- - messages with lines > 80 characters
-
- I think there's something about that in the FAQ, actually; if you
- make your message easy to read and put a Subject: on it, people
- are more likely to read it, and you're more likely to get some
- response.
-
- I guess I should step down off my soapbox before someone throws
- a tomato :-)
-
- -Steve
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