Re: [Manycouches] ways to slow list traffic down

IMHO, at the point in time when a disucssion on a mailing list becomes
unbearing, its time to attempt to structure the information on a wiki.
This requires to have some form of editor that isn't committed to one
side of an arguemtn but willing and able to merge/structure/compress
arguments raised.

Of course, wiki can be seen just as a more collaborative editing way
for something tha ideally might turn out to become an RFC in the end
to become a more immutable representation of the discussion after a
while.

I could think of some type of tooling between mailing list and wiki,
such as forums, but i don't think that what exists today is actually
any better than email or wiki.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 03:10:53PM +0000, Mike Bishop wrote:
> For actual new topics, sure.  I won't mention the list, but I recently had someone changing the subject on every reply; made the conversation nearly impossible to follow.
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> From: Manycouches <manycouches-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Michael Richardson
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 8:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Manycouches] ways to slow list traffic down
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> Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> wrote:
>     >> But a quota might also do more harm than good, though, because batched
>     >> replies would make it harder to keep track of individual threads and
>     >> issues.
> 
>     > I think it's important for thinking about these sorts of issues to
>     > include incentives among the various considerations, and I do think
>     > that quotas will tend to incentivize long, multi-topic pieces of mail.
>     > I'm actually not sure I love moderating every post, either, but we'll
>     > see how things go and what we learn with the add experiment.
> 
> ideally, it would be nice to be able to limit replies on a per-thread basis.
> That way, the batched replies would deal with a common topic.
> 
> The obvious hack is to start new threads for new topics.  That in of itself might be a positive thing.
> 
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> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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