Sam,
I am happily going to leave it now at the 'agree to disagree' point now and
I hope the is okay with you. Two comments below.
"My own preference is to pipe as many of the feeds I like as possible into
my
inbox, and filter there. If your own preference is different, so be it, but
please don't presume your preference is universal: clearly, it is not."
I do not at all presume my choice is "universal" and I am surprised you
would think this from what I wrote. I am not ramming my choice down
anybody's throat. Rather, I am giving you an example of what I do so that
you can see that people use email and the internet differently. And to bring
home the point that I do not want loads of mail in my inbox. It seems like
we are trying to make the same point, actually!
"ILL = Inter-library loan? I'm sorry, I don't see the relevance of
inter-library loans to the discussion about Gerard's posts to the list."
Perhaps if you subscribe to one of the lists that received a lot of ILL
emails (e.g. Lis Medical), you will then understand the relevance of this
comparison to the discussion.
Best wishes,
Danielle
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Sam Kuper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 2009/5/12 Danielle Marie <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > [...]
> > Sam,
> >
> > "Perhaps, indeed. But does it really matter?"
> >
> > Yes, it apparently does really matter- hence the heated discussion that
> has
> > been unleashed.
>
>
> It seems to me that those who would ask Gerard to stop may not be au fait
> with the filtering technologies their email clients provide them with.
> There's a distribution of responsibility here, and I believe there is an
> onus on list subscribers to be competent to filter the content to which
> they
> have subscribed, or else to unsubscribe. Obviously, the former is better,
> because that way people learn something and don't feel obliged to throw out
> the baby with what they perceive as the bathwater.
>
>
> > Joining lists that have a high number of ILL/ document
> > request emails is not appealing (to me) because ILLs are spam to me.
>
>
> ILL = Inter-library loan? I'm sorry, I don't see the relevance of
> inter-library loans to the discussion about Gerard's posts to the list.
>
>
> > I
> > prefer to have a low volume list like Ukeig and I think you have sensed
> the
> > problem caused by a prolific user in this context-people do not want to
> > receive 50% of the list from one person as it isn't terribly varied and
> > tends to be dominated by one topic. Or at least I do not.
>
>
> I'd argue that the obvious solution to the problem is to either report the
> user for violating T&C, if you believe he is, or else to filter that user's
> posts.
>
>
> > I also tend not to
> > want to do a lot of filtering as I have a I do not want to miss the
> > important remaining stuff.
>
>
> I'm afraid I don't see how filtering out Gerard's posts would cause you to
> miss *any* other emails, unless your email client is not fit for purpose.
>
>
> > The typical way of checking up on the blogs I like to read is by RSS
> feeds
> > or by just good old fashioned bookmarking or (less old fashioned)
> > StumbleUpon-that way absolutely nothing goes into my email inbox.
> > Beautiful.
>
>
> The approach you typically choose for consuming electronic information may
> not be the approach that others typically choose for consuming the same
> information. Among the joys of the internet are its heterogeneity and
> flexibility. As Sam Ruby says <http://intertwingly.net/blog/>, "It's just
> data" - and I'd argue, it's up to each person to choose how he or she
> wishes
> to consume or avoid that data.
>
> My own preference is to pipe as many of the feeds I like as possible into
> my
> inbox, and filter there. If your own preference is different, so be it, but
> please don't presume your preference is universal: clearly, it is not.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sam
>
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Danielle Worster
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