Dear OSLIST

Tue Jan 9 11:16:13 PST 2001

Is anybody here as fascinated as I am with this recent thread?

I find it wonderful to follow the dance of engagement in virtual
communities like OSLIST or Caucus or alot of the other online forums I'm
part of.

And, as I've been using Usenet and listservs for almost ten years now, I
have seen this kind of thing happen over and over:

substantive discussion --->  light discussion --->  reflection --->
substantive discusison again.

Sound familiar?

OSLIST and Caucus and Openspace world will all go through changes and
ebbs and flows about how they should be employed, and personal
responsibility.  But of course, all the discussion about shoulds and
shalls is strictly hypothetical, because ultimately people will decide
to use the forums according to their passion and responsibility (one
person's passion is another's irresponsibility, perhaps?).  So I can
guarantee you that as much as it's a pain in the rear, someone WILL send
a large attachment to the list again,  A personal note of
congratulations will show up, off topic discussion will occur, everyone
will migrate to Caucus and then back again...all these things are in our
future as a community!

I have no prescriptions for how to improve the list...I think it's
working fine.  But I would invite people to observe what's going on
here, and savour the dance of the meta conversation.  But don't blink!
In no time at all, we'll be back to stories and questions and envelope
pushing, and it will all be forgotten...until another .pdf file shows
up!

All the best,

Chris

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>From  Tue Jan  9 11:39:27 2001
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:39:27 -0800
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From: Lisa Heft <lisaheft at pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: shoemaker's children
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I do not know the technical workings of list design, but
would it be helpful to put a brief note at the bottom of
each page, as we do the OSLIST subscription information?

I think of this because there will always be new people and
because many people do not read the 'welcome to the list
here are the rules' note more than the initial time they see
it, and they might forget...

Lisa

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Joelle Lyons Everett wrote:
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> Birgitt, and everyone--
>
> I like the idea of clarifying the purpose and a few simple guidelines, and it
> would be useful to share those with newcomers.  I think we are, collectively,
> quick learners, but it wouldn't hurt to make these ideas explicit once in a
> while.
>
> Joelle
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>From  Tue Jan  9 11:59:08 2001
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From: Lisa Heft <lisaheft at pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Dear OSLIST -- Then I read Chris' message...I
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> I would invite people to observe what's going on here, and savour the dance of the meta conversation.>

Chris, thank you for bringing me back to center regarding
the ebb and flow of a virtual community process.  With your
message I felt as if I was releasing definitions and trying
to think for others like little streams of sand pouring off
of me.

I commit personally to titling my messages in a way that you
all can choose or delete them, being aware of how
attachments affect people (thank you Christophe, again), and
remembering to write off-line in more situations.  Thank you
all for teaching me about how these things affect people and
thank you Chris for reminding me to step back to see better.

Now I shall go sit back down in the virtual circle.

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