roundtable: CHAT: About CHAT:

roundtable: CHAT: About CHAT:

CHAT: About CHAT:

Gene Chesser (chesser@physics.utexas.edu)
Mon, 22 May 1995 16:59:51 -0500 (CDT) 

Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 16:59:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gene Chesser <chesser@physics.utexas.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: CHAT: About CHAT: 
In-Reply-To: <9505191334.AA05915@a.cni.org>
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950522164036.22772B-100000@linux3.ph.utexas.edu>


On Mon, 22 May 1995, W. Curtiss Priest wrote:
> 
> Dick Sclove, who runs LOKA lists, noted that his lists had many
> things posted, but interactive chats seemed to be fading away.
> 
> I sense the same thing on lists I regularly frequent. 

I also see the trend to less chat on listservers. I run a couple of 
listservers: texas-isdn (Texas ISDN Users Group) and tmi (Texas 
Multimedia Initiative).  


> He noted that while this had the positive effect of reducing traffic
> and keeping messages down, he thought the interactive nature of the
> lists were being lost.  I agree.
> 
> He suggested to put CHAT: in the subject heading, before the topic.
> That way, people could more easily screen out chats, and it would be
> a signal that the person posting, really wanted to hear from others.

I like the idea!  The users of our lists holler a little when 
commercial adds or off subject chat gets out of hand, but overall the 
lists self police themselves.  The subject prefix CHAT:  or ADD: would 
allow "serious" users to skip the message and may encourage "lurkers" 
to be more involved.

Gene
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