Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970619123311.006cf5ec@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:33:11 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: Re: List ettiquette
In-Reply-To: <33A8F6D7.31DFF4F5@mmu.ac.uk>
Thank you for the info on list ettiquette, Bruce.
I will try again to send my reply to TP/MC, this time snipping about 3000
characters from the 32000 I had previously attempted.
--Aaron Lynch
THOUGHT CONTAGION:
How Belief Spreads Through Society
The New Science of Memes
Basic Books. Info and free sample:
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
At 10:07 AM 6/19/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Just a couple of notes about good ettiquette about using a mailing list.
>
>
>1. Try to keep them short! The mailing list will reject mailings >
>40000 bytes long (Aaron has just had a mail "bounced" for this reason).
>Even antogonists in a debate will not be bothered to read overly long
>posts.
>
>2. Only quote strictly relevant parts of a preceding post. Do not just
>merely quote the whole thing and intersperse comments.
>
>3. When the subject changes, change the "subject" line, maybe adding
>(was ...) after it.
>
>4. Try to recapitulate threads into a coherent post every now and
>then. Threads quickly degenerate if you try to use them as an
>exponentially branching conversation.
>
>5. Add blank lines and seperator lines ("-----" etc.) to make the posts
>more readable.
>
>6. A few posters have their mail compose window to wide so that the
>mailing list software then mangles the lines and makes it even more
>tedious to read.
>
>
>***************************************************************
>
>Remember! Humans are *Very* rarely convinced by detailed argument!
>Presenting coherent ideas and dealing with points of information is far
>more effective. Generally only bad or old ideas do not have critics.
>
>***************************************************************
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>Bruce Edmonds,
>Centre for Policy Modelling,
>Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Bldg.,
>Aytoun St., Manchester, M1 3GH. UK.
>Tel: +44 161 247 6479 Fax: +44 161 247 6802
>http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~bruce
>
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----Aaron Lynch
THOUGHT CONTAGION: How Belief Spreads Through Society The New Science of Memes Basic Books. Info and free sample: http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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