Marc,
very sympathetic; nevertheless, most people click on "reply", and hence the
heading is carried on.Where people are carrying on from a previous
conversation, but feel that they are introducing a new thread, they usually
click "new mail" but put something which ties in the subject matter to the
former conversation. Personally, I use a slash ( / ) to append the new to
the old.There are no strict conventions.
Most importantly, WHO would do the imposing that you suggest? - there is no
list-master as such, and so, like pedestrian traffic, (or indeed, road
traffic, for that matter), organisation comes about in the form of commonly
subscribed-to protocols, and without any central control; .....this being a
new medium, there are many misunderstandings.
But, importantly, there is no-one to blame; whilst one can always make a
generalisation such as "that lot couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery",
or some such, there is no particular individual that one could say is
responsible for, or is the cause of, any particular inadequacies in
procedure.
Arguably, that was always the case, but now it's more obvious. But
primarily, it's the nature of the 'net - not the nature of this list, per
se.
As a "perceptologist" (oh all right, I made that up) - but I mean, a
psychologist primarily interested in 'perception' or (more specifically,
'human knowing') I would say that this is always the case: the difficulty
you are facing is similar to the difficulty I would face when listening to a
group of train-spotters, or my teenage daughter discussing the REALLY
important things in life, like boys, Ally Mcbeal, who's a bitch (or a
bastard) and so on, or whatever; -the single most important factor in
facilitation of understanding of an information-rich environment is
"interest" (or 'motivation', whatever you call it), followed by 'experience'
(of the specific context first, and similar ones next).
In other words, if you lose track, don't worry, and don't blame anyone, but
like the person who is hard of hearing, just go with the flow, and
eventually, what is important to you will leap out at you, and the rest will
pass by; and isn't that just like life generally?
cheers,
ppl
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Original Message -----
From: "Marc Brookhuis" <brookhuis1@zonnet.nl>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 20 October 2000 00:11
Subject: MD structure
>
> As a long time lurker,
> Even as a bystander I've got some trouble keeping track of everything
that's
> going on in the MOQ.
>
> Isn't it a good idea to organise mails, f.e. by giving each mail a
> subject(bold) etcetera?
>
> A little bit more structure in chaos, some static patterns preventing the
> loss of dynamic quality?
>
>
> Marc
>
>
>
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