Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h3GKS9U27877; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4B26E929.629F865F.0AB94E44@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:208] Re: from Cris, AALPD session at COABE X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 2944 Lines: 54 "must go >through the tedious process of deleting the lengthy memos." The tedious process of deleting lengthy memos is no more tedious than the process to delete brief ones. All it takes is for you to press the delete key. Regarding your request, for people to respond only to a few participants, it is not the purpose of a forum or the way forums do or should operate. Many participants in a forum are simply lurkers. In any forum, there are always topics that interest some but not all participants at all times. Anyone subscribing to a forum understands this. Forum participants read and respond only to the messages that they are interested in, and skip and delete the rest. Whenever you, or anyone else finds a topic of interest, you will participate in the forum. I may or may not be interested in what you are saying. However, I will not expect for you to start a separate discussion with only a few people. The fact that someone may not be responding to some of the messages does not mean that the person does not want to read them. If it happens that you subscribe to a forum, and the vast majority of the messages do not interest you, then you should un-subscribe. Whenever you have time, you can go to the archives and read only the ones that interested you. At the same time, if there is a participant that always writes about things unrelated to the forum, the moderator can always ban that person from the forum or delete his/her messages. Andres In a message dated 4/16/2003 12:10:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, Barbara Raines <braines@eldoradolibrary.org> writes: >Andres: > >Yes, you can select which members of the forum to send messges to. Just >ask for the Emails of those who respond and then continue your conversation. > >There are few particpants in "your particular forum discussion at the >moment" and many participants who are not participating, but must go >through the tedious process of deleting the lengthy memos. > >Wouldn't it be kinder for the "few" to send "within their group" than to >ask the majority to unsubscribe from the service? > >There has been other questions and information that has been valuable >besides the "diversity" issue. Thank you. > >Barbara > >At 12:36 PM 04/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: >>julie ane everyone else that does not want to get all the ALLPD replys : >> >>non of us can delete you from our email lists, because we do not have a >>list of all participants. We are members of a "forum" as well as you. >>Anything posted to the forum will go to all members, and we cannot select >>which members of the forum we can send messeges to. >> >>If you do not want to get messeges from the forum, you need to >>unsubscribe, following the same process that you used to subscribe. I am >>sure that Jackie can give you directions to do this. >> >>Andres >> >>-- >>go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html > > > -- go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
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