Re: [LM_NET] Plea for us digest folks

["Hassett, Bob E." <Bob.Hassett@FCPS.EDU>]

I'm sympathetic to this plea, but it's not always practical for me to
honor it. I'm speaking solely for myself. But sometimes I'm responding
to a thread that's gone a little cold and think it might be useful to
have some more of the context included. Other times I'm responding to a
particular aspect or comment from a longer thread and want to make it
clear what I'm talking about. And, as a reader, on some occasions I pick
up a thread late and like to have as much as possible of the
conversation present so I can catch up quickly.

The digest can be a useful way to keep up if you don't want your inbox
flooded. But it's an inefficient method for tracking activity on a list
as active as lm_net. One solution might be to apply a rule that sends
all your lm_net mail to a folder that you can read when you have time
and delete away as the spirit moves you.

---Bob.

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See you in the Library!

-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of LIZANELL BOMAN
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:19 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Plea for us digest folks

Hi Folks,

I love LM_Net and spend quite a bit of time on the archives etc.,
because I am a fairly new media specialist.  However, I've been a little
frustrated of late trying to keep track of various threads through my
digest mail, so I have a plea for you all.  If you are responding
directly to a message because you think the whole list will benefit from
your response, PLEASE take the thirty seconds or so necessary to delete
the other messages in the digest below the one to which you are
replying.  I've had at least a dozen messages in the last week where two
or three (or more!) messages below the pertinent one where completely
un-necessary and slightly confusing as it looks like perhaps there is
more information on those threads.  

Thanks!

Lizanell Boman
Secondary Library Media Teacher
American Leadership Academy
lizanellb@msn.com<mailto:lizanellb@msn.com>

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