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Can I say thanks for these notes on 'list etiquette', and others in  
the past who post comments about maintaining the quality of this  
useful resource.

This might seem an insignificant point, but as a frequent reader and  
infrequent contributor, I hope I speak on behalf of other less  
experienced researchers and list users that these tips and advice make  
the process of contributing more inviting, less intimidating, and  
demonstrate a supportive environment for new researchers.

Robert


Robert Harland    Lecturer    Loughborough University    School of Art  
and Design    +44 (0)1509 228980    [log in to unmask]
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/mainpages/Research/staffpages/harland/harland.htm




On 26 Jul 2009, at 00:56, Ken Friedman wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> This is a modest request to make the list more useful and readable.  
> As I
> wrote in my footnote on Richard Sennett, the thread on educating for
> creativity seems to have suggested two sets of issues that move into  
> other
> realms that educating. One realm involves the nature of the  
> profession or
> craft of design. The other involves an abstract set of questions about
> epistemology.
>
> The JISCMAIL Listserv software provides a good way to track threads  
> by using
> subject headers. It also allows us to organize and find earlier and  
> later
> contributions to a thread, jumping back and forth to prior and next  
> post by
> author, by subject, or by date and time.
>
> Identifying the subject by changing the header when appropriate  
> makes the
> list more usable. That's why I headed by response to Robert as a  
> note on
> Richard Sennett.
>
> While Terry's long post raises interesting issues, the note does not  
> address
> educating for creativity. Instead, he delves deeply into a series f  
> issues
> that I'd label epistemology -- perhaps one could find other labels,  
> but the
> note is not about educating for creativity.
>
> One of the things that makes this list so interesting is the way  
> that we've
> been ablt to build up interesting dialogues in a fairly robust  
> community
> over the eleven or so years since Keith Russell and David Durling  
> founded
> the list after the Columbus, Ohio conference on Doctoral Education  
> in Design.
>
> In the years since, we've built a marvelous archive of posts,  
> commentary,
> and interaction.
>
> Such small but helpful practices as attention to subject headers and  
> care in
> trimming reply tails make on-going threads more readable while make  
> the
> archive easier to manage and use.
>
> May I offer a plea for consideration in identifying the subject of a  
> post? A
> response to an on-going thread should probably preserve the subject  
> header.
> If a post explores a divergent topic or opens a deep exploration of a
> subsidiary or minor topic, it probably deserves a subject header of  
> its own.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken
>
> Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS
> Professor
> Dean
>
> Swinburne Design
> Swinburne University of Technology
> Melbourne, Australia
>
>
>
>