[Vision2020] V2020 admin request about posting and threading

[Paul Rumelhart]

Top posting just makes more sense, in my humble opinion.

If you are following the thread, then you are rewarded with the response 
visible as soon as you open a message, as opposed to scrolling down a 
long list of replies to see a "me, too!" response.  If you are wondering 
what the heck the person is talking about, then you can read down the 
email as you go back in time and get an idea what is going on.  It's 
there for context. Probably 90% of business emails top post.

It might help to think of some of these threads as meandering 
conversations rather than formal debates, though I do agree that it is a 
good idea to change the subject line when the topic has completely gone 
90 degrees away from where it originally started.

Paul

On 06/30/2012 03:10 PM, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
> On 6/30/2012 2:34 PM, Ted Moffett wrote:
>> I posted several times about this years ago, but trying to moderate 
>> Vision2020 posting behavior is like herding cats...
>
> I don't doubt it. I can remember years ago sending messages about top 
> posting ...
>
> Of course, one should not overlook the range of possibilities 
> concerning the nature of cats. I've just read the first few dozen 
> pages of Stephen King's latest  novel, _The Wind Through the Keyhole._ 
> So far, there's is just a hint about the nature of cats, but that may 
> change.
>
> Roland, Roland, Roland, keep those stories Rolan' ...
>
>
> Ken
>
>> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com 
>> <mailto:kmmos1 at frontier.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Recently it has come to my attention that new posts to the V2020
>>     list are being created and sent as replies to existing posts
>>     concerning different subject matters. This might not be so
>>     bothersome if threaded e-mail clients did not exist. However,
>>     they do exist, and are quite useful, at least when their utility
>>     is not thwarted by major subject changes within a thread about
>>     another topic. So, the request is, when changing the discussion
>>     subject, to create a new message in a new thread with an
>>     appropriate subject heading so topics can be found more easily
>>     and ordered by priority of necessity, urgency, or interest for
>>     easier e-mail consumption.
>>
>>     In a better world, "Hi, Jack" is a friendly greeting, not a
>>     disagreeable activity.
>>
>>     Thanks for your consideration.
>>
>>
>>     Ken
>>
>>
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