list etiquette

Kaliya * identitywoman at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 22:58:05 PDT 2009


FINE!

You guys can have your own "reality" of list etiquette.
I live in the tech world....and people work and do business and change the
world developing common standards and work via mailing lists.

Keeping threads clear and not dividing them is an important part of helping
these communities function and work together. It is like having a session
that is going well and then for no apparent reason dividing it into multiple
sessions mid way through......not cool (this is assuming the conversation is
coherent and going well)

While you all are SO focused on face to face processes of OST (and other
things) you are forgetting that some have develped amazing cultures and
learning for connecting and sharing online. It is from these practices and
sharing that I make this request.

I make a simple request that is not specific to "your" list serve it is
respectful of mailing list community practice generally...I am pointing it
out so you can stop doing it. If you choose not to FINE but it is
disresepctful of the conversation and people like me who start threads only
to find them split off for no good reason....in technical communities you
can have threads that are 80+ posts long this is good cause if you are going
back to read them in archives or even reading them the first time in a
reader like google they all come out in order.


I suggest you add a #12 to the etiquette guide about not splitting list
threads a part...

Thanks.
-Kaliya


On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:

> Kaliya,
>
> I hear you'd like folks to follow list etiquette.
>
> ("etiquette" FAQ here:
>
> http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?FrequentlyAskedOSLISTQuestions)
>
> I've been on this list for some 8 years now, love it, (most of the time
> it's
> a pretty amicable place except when a few of us go off the deep end) and am
> not sure how much luck anyone has had for people to write or post things
> differently.
>
> Perhaps like herding bees?
>
> I can just say in my own case, that I just had so much difficulty seeing
> myself being part of a session called "Open Space defined badly" that I
> created a new one...
>
> bzzzzzzzzzzzzz
>
> wormly,
> wroffi
>
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