Isabelle Bracamonte wrote:
>
> Hail, fellow listers,
>
> Please refrain from sending one- or two-line
> responses, witty comebacks, or "me too" messages to
> the list. It has always been a Vocalist policy to
> limit unnecessary bandwidth and particularly short
> messages/replies, especially for those listers who pay
> for their bandwidth. Also, please be courteous about
> taking back-and-forth debates involving only two
> people into private email.
>
> Also, I might propose that, instead of sending ten or
> twelve short responses immediately after reading, you
> perhaps think about combining your thoughts into one
> or two messages a day. Many lists have an enforced
> two-post-a-day policy, but I don't think we need to be
> that formal about it. One of the great things about
> this list is the back-and-forth discussions about
> technique and other vocal issues, but seeing one
> person's name in the list of messages more than ten
> times a day (and there are several offenders in this
> arena, myself occasionally included) is a bit much.
Isabelle:
I appreciate your concerns in this, but it's really not what appealed to
me - and probably to others - about the original Vocalist. I would
concur about the "me too" messages, but to post on several topics in the
one post is confusing. I know not everyone follows up a thread in the
same way, but my server sorts by thread, and when I read my posts, that
is precisely what I get - a continuous "thread" on the same train of
thought. To keep skipping to and fro between different issues I would
find very confusing, not to say irritating. This is my sixth post today
- a fact for which I apologize if it upsets you; but I still prefer to
write separately on each matter, particularly as many replies are to one
person's specific question, but of interest to all of us. Even the "me
too" messages often _need_ to be seen, if the writer feels a need to
show _public_ support and appreciation. I once subscribed to Choralist,
but public responding was frowned on there, though sometimes the
original writer would post a summary of the replies they had got. I
found this frustrating and sterile and eventually unsubscribed.
I do belong to a couple of newsgroups on Usenet, but there's nothing
quite like Vocalist there. And my partner, who is a computer officer,
always pulls me up sharply if I jumble up the expressions "mail" and
"posting" and "news" and "newsgroup" and "mailing list". AIUI, Vocalist
comes to me through e-mail: it appears in the same folder on Netscape.
The original Vocalist was a mailing list, wasn't it, or have I got that
wrong?
Linda
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