Well said.



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Richard Sims
Sent: 03 June 2009 12:03
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

Sorry, Preston, but your presumption to impose this "requirement" on
ADSM-L members is bogus.

Your choice to feed ADSM-L postings to your income-producing
commercial site does not in any way compel ADSM-L members,
contributing postings in good will, to comply with your dictates to
compensate for shortcomings in your site.  ADSM-L exists for its own
purposes, hosted through the graces of a university which reaps no
income from that hosting.  There is no requirement expressed or
implied that postings need to accommodate any other secondary purpose.

What you need to do is finally address the deficiencies of your site
by embarking upon the Web development to organize incoming postings by
thread, as other ADSM-L archiving sites do (adsm.org,  
www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu
/).  While it certainly makes sense to include quoted elements of what
one is replying to when there are details in question, there is NO
need in a threaded discussion to voluminously include all past
elements of the discussion, as a mounting accumulation.  That's
redundant, wastes Internet bandwidth, and is an untoward imposition on
Marist's disk space in hosting this mailing list (at their expense).

You are free to include ADSM-L postings on your site, but it is the
tail wagging the dog for you to try to dictate the usage of an
independent forum.

     Richard Sims, at Boston University

On Jun 2, 2009, at 10:09 PM, cpreston wrote:

> Before posting to this forum, you need to understand that it is also
> connected to a mailing list that existed before the forum, and that
> we must respect that community's wishes.  EVERY forum post that you
> make is immediately sent to that mailing list as an email.  Messages
> that include no context may make sense on a threaded forum, but make
> no sense to an email user that can't easily see the previous message
> to which you are replying.
>
> Therefore, when replying to another post (including your own), YOU
> MUST INCLUDE the relevant parts of the post to which you are
> replying in quotes.  That way, when someone is following on the
> mailing list, they won't get an email that says "Here's what you can
> do about that?" without having any idea what "that" is.
>
> The easiest way to do this is to use your mouse to select the
> appropriate amount of text needed for context, then right click and
> select "Copy."  Paste that message into your forum post as the first
> paragraph or two.  THEN SELECT THE PASTED TEXT AGAIN and click the
> "Quote" button just below the title of your post.  That will place
> the "Quote" and "End Quote" codes around your text, causing it to
> show up as a quote in the forum post and in the email to the mailing
> list.
>
> Your assistance in this is greatly appreciated.
>
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