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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: a modest proposal
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 07:11:19PM -0700, Jared Still wrote:
> Comments below:
>
> On 10/21/05, Ray Stell <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > A list, Signal-to-Noise Ratio proposal...
> >
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> Summarily blown off? No, I don't think that was the case.
It was a joke, summary/summarily, nothing personal. I was trying to say I didn't get my way. Life is tough.
> Relying on a moderater or the OP to summarize the useful information
> from replies has never really worked well.
it's art, I considered it working in the very best way, as in a higher quality exchange, high S/N ratio.
> It eliminates the free exchange of ideas through the thread - there is no
> collaboration, just a number of individuals sending their ideas to the OP,
> who may or may not understand all the replies.
right, it is less free, exactly; more like the exchange at a technical meeting as opposed to playground chatter.
People who read the summaries are open a free to exchange all they like, collaberation is not at all eliminated. In fact it is more concentrated.
> Being the 'owner' of a list is quite a bit different - you have
> administrative
> responsibilities: granting or revoking posting privileges, setting quoting
> limits, stuff like that. But you don't edit content.
This was not the proposal.
> I'm no longer the 'owner' of the list, but I still have an opinion.
this is a good thing. The proposal serves a different purpose, sort of "instant" msg openworld. You get 1/3 of the posts and the ones you are interested in are more dense. You get to contact the posters identified in the summary to go as deep as you like.
-- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Mon Oct 24 2005 - 11:00:40 CDT
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