I had an exchange with Jack Teller on the subject, which, I
believe, may be of general interest (especially to those who are
new to the Ontolog collaborative work environment). Therefore
sharing it here (with Jack's permission). (01)
Regards. =ppy
-- (02)
On 2/3/07 9:34 AM PST, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jack,
>
> Thank you for the message. (03)
> 1. I still have you (based on your member-survey input) on
> the record as an "observer". I can update that on your
> advise/confirmation. This does not affect a member's
> involvement until it comes to "voting" on community issues
> (when "observers" don't vote), which is quite rare, as we
> normally go by consensus and volunteering for things. But
> then, when it really needs to come down to this, voting in
> the registered "active" members are still qualified by their
> actual participation (attending meetings, involvement in
> discussions, etc.) (04)
> 2. Ref. going into the 'digest' mode, I was hoping my post
> yesterday (ref. specifically toward the end of:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-02/msg00023.html#nid07
> ) was able to explain it clearly enough ... but evidently
> not. (Alternatively) If you want to go from normal delivery
> to the "digest" or "no mail" mode, just let me know, I can
> set that up for you too. (05)
> 3. The "digest" actually sends you the messages in entirety
> (not abbreviated), but it just does it once a day (or when
> it crosses a prescribed cumulated message size threshold.)
> Therefore, if I understand you correctly, "drill down" would
> not apply. (06)
> 4. One setback when you turn off the normal delivery mode
> is that there is no means for you to "continue a threaded
> conversation" in the forum, because one nominally does that
> by doing a "reply" on an incoming post from the mailing
> list (which you don't get any more.) The preferred work
> around would be to start a new message with the same
> subject line (or modify it as it is applicable to the
> particular subject matter being discussed), cite the
> passage one is responding to, and respond accordingly
> (as a new post.) The same goes for the "no mail"
> subscriber, except that in this case, instead of
> citing from the digest, one cites from the message
> segment from forum archive content.
> In both cases, citing a proper reference (original
> poster, date/time, subject) or the "PurpleNumber" of
> the passage being responded to would help tremendously. (07)
> You asked a set of very good question, which I am sure,
> is of general interest. I hope you don't mind if I put
> this conversation up onto the public forum so it is shared
> with others in the community as well.
>
> Thanks & regards. =ppy
> -- (08)
> On Feb 3, 2007 17:00 UTC, <drjackteller@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Peter, I don't know if I have changed my status from observer
>> to participant, yet. If I have, fine, if not, can I do so
>> now. Also, I must have missed some instructions on how to
>> handle this large amount of email coming through the pipes.
>> Can you explain to me how I can get 'digest' and turn off
>> the entire flow of emails. Then, please also include
>> explanation as to how to drill down to the actual emails,
>> when a digest item strikes me as interesting. Thanks.
>>
>> JacobTeller (09)
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