This seems to be a bit of personal attack on Peter and really not appropriate for this list. I am sure that Peter’s posting are done for only altruistic reason’s without a shadow of arrogance. You make a good point badly.
From: The UK Records Management mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jen Parker
Sent: 11 May 2011 10:04
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Subject: Re: Its RAINing again...
I'd like to second this.
As i've also said before, i question any one person's domination of this list. Irrespective, of how many people might appreciate your postings Peter, let's not forget that others may disagree, but never speak up. And their popularity is, as i see it, actually irrelevant and ephemeral to the central point here. That is; respecting each and every subscriber's right to opt in and out of what comes into their inbox, and the moral duty to not abuse that, when you have a captive audience.
As a list subscriber, I do not welcome your postings keep coming up into my inbox (the same email add that i use for a hundred other things) day after day.
I find it odd too, that Peter has continued to send out postings this week, without taking the time-out to reply to Steve.
Sadly, it comes across as rather arrogant.
Regards,
Jen Parker
P.S The title of this email is great though, such a brilliant pun!
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:27:52 +0100
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Subject: Its RAINing again...
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Hi Peter
I’m not sure if you saw the message I sent you earlier this week, or the one from another list subscriber a few weeks ago asking for clarification on the status of your RAIN emails but don’t seem to have come across a reply from you to either. Both concerned your apparent return to posting individual news items to this and other lists having earlier this year taken the apparent decision to end this practice in favour of a single daily digest.
For the avoidance of doubt on this I refer you to your email sent to this list on the 7th January this year stating:
since starting my twitter feed and Yahoo group last spring I've occasionally posted individual stories to these lists.. Stories that I thought deserved a wider audience. Some have complained in the past about being bombarded with too many messages and interesting discussions have taken place as a result
any way during the 15 years that i've been producing RAIN i've always sought better ways to deliver the news to folks. well for sometime i've been investigating paper.li. so today will be the first issue of the RAINbyte daily digest. individual stories will no longer be posted to the lists. paper.li aggregates my tweets into a single digest. (my emphasis)
Paper.li is not a technology I’m familiar with so I’m guessing that it may be that you’ve since found that it doesn’t serve your purpose, which is fair enough. However, if you do intend to return to separate individual postings with these stories for this or any other reason on a permanent basis might I respectfully suggest that you take up an idea I suggested when this topic arose late last year. That is that you set up a separate [log in to unmask] discussion list specifically for these postings. That way you can continue to manage this process exactly as you do now, those who wish to receive them can opt in to receive them by joining the said list and those who wish to be untroubled by them can just carry on regardless. From memory I don’t recall receiving any views as to why this wouldn’t work when first proposed.
With best wishes
Steve
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Sent: 11 May 2011 05:32
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Subject: History, One Photo at a Time - WSJ.com
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