Hi Ken,
Thank you for your response, and I take your point regards awareness of
users.
However, you are forgetting that I too am a user of this system when I post.
My initial point was a reasonably simple suggestion that perhaps a
technical solution to the tails issue is possible, and thus preferable to
busywork by *anyone*.
If, as Don says, there is an issue with Gmail autohide (I still must
disagree that this is even a major problem from my own extensive experience
of Gmail in a range of contexts) then perhaps the question should be asked
- is email even an appropriate technology for a multithreaded conversation
of this nature?
Perhaps, the best way to respond to this unfortunate spat is instead to go
further, and now consider what this list might become, both culturally and
technically, rather than accepting a status quo that may simply be
technically obsolete.
Perhaps it is time - given we do live in a social media era - that this
community should consider moving onwards to (at least) a managed threaded
forum instead of continuing with JISCmail.
Cross platform alternatives of this kind exist to facilitate group
communication. It's been a few years since I was in professional practice,
so I'm very rusty on that front, but I can't expect things have gone
backwards.
More effective communication could then proceed, and no-one need worry
about email issues of this kind - plus we would get some new and valuable
tools for increasing our collaborative capacity to make up for the shiny
new problems that would replace our current ones.
Yes, there are scoping and migration issues. We're talking to designers
here, though, and if we can't figure out a problem like this one
collaboratively, in order to improve our collaborative capacity within this
community, then what right have we to call ourselves design academics?
Regards,
Adam
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