On 10/24/12 11:58 AM, Adam Ramadan wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> This subject has now generated many many emails and opinions over three days. I suspect that rather than setting up parallel email lists, clever email filter rules, or discussing this ad nauseam, we ought simply to look at why those original objections were raised on Monday. On Monday, eight new discussion threads were created by two people - some of that content was probably interesting to some or many list subscribers, but perhaps 24,000+ emails did not need to be sent. Blogs, Facebook or Twitter (bird-brains included) might be better media for some of the content frequently being posted here. Rather than this endless discussion about what CGF is, should be or could be, perhaps we can just carry on with a little greater collective and individual self-awareness about what content might be worth sending on, and how much might be too much.
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> Regards,
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> Adam
>
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> Dr Adam Ramadan
> Lecturer in Human Geography
> School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
> University of Birmingham
> B15 2TT
>
Dear all,
I agree completely with what Adam said.
I just add that yes, subscription is voluntary; this is no excuse,
however. It can be argued that if anyone is free to post, other should
be free to complain, too - and of course, others to counter-complain,
and...
On a less retaliatory basis, I am sure that most of you would agree that
the fact that this is a free space implies that everyone should make
more effort - not less - to respect some kind of ground rules, the first
of which should be using the list as a public forum (vs a private
blog/courtyard/loudspeaker/toy).
The same result cannot be achieved, in my opinion, by setting up my mail
client filters in any way; the argument "you can cancel the emails you
are not interested in, it takes two minutes", is not valid either; in my
experience, mailing lists survive precisely until the users are not
forced to do that, to look for sparse gold nuggets among the fifty,
mostly useless emails they receive every day - even if that would take
them not more than five minutes.
Best
Marco
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