[HacktionLab] Reply to to person, rather than list

[Alan Dawson]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:33:40PM +0000, Carl van Tonder wrote:
> Alan,

> Re: the activix discussion that you mentioned, I don't think that the
> lack of munging "valorizses individual communication over the
> collective"; instead, it encourages people not to become better-informed
> about the technology that they use; surely we should encourage the
> opposite? The culture of having conversations in public is a social
> construct, not a technical one, and it could be encouraged (as on many
> of the most successful FOSS lists) by social rather than technical
> means.
> 

Well I'm not blocking the change ( as it seems to have happened anyway ), but 

1. I'm on this list because I want to talk with the people on the list, 
2. I want benefit from listening to the conversations that other are having, and be able to participate in them actively at any time

reply munging encourages flow of information into the collective commons of the community, 
and minimises the opportunities for the conversations to fragment.

And finally from me, the quote "its not really about the technical issues but how you see a mailing list as a social space" is most important.
Email is an imperfect piece of technology which we are forced to map on to the space of human interaction.  Its not possible for RFC's to be correct for every situation.

Regards, 

-- 
Alan Dawson
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