Digital BW, The Print

This list has much potential. I'm shocked at the amount of 
volume so far. I will say, in addition, that abiding by some small 
details can REALLY help the quality of the list. These are merely 
suggestions:

a) If you complete the Yahoo Profile, by following Antonis' 
instructions that were posted yesterday, your Full Name will 
show up on the posts, rather than the truncated email address. 
This is useful to identify people more quickly. Sometimes, 
someone's email address will have no relation to the first few 
characters of their email address.

b) At the bottom of your post, please sign your full name. There 
are many Bills, and Pauls, and Mikes, and Marks out there; with 
so many posts flying around, it's easy to get people confused. 
Since we're not discussing personal indiscretions, or interns, or 
jailtime, there's no real reason to be anonymous.

c) I also find it useful to see someone's personal URL posted at 
the bottom of the post, along with their full name. It gives so 
much more perspective and depth into someone's question or 
remarks, when you can then go and view their website and their 
images. Obviously, not everyone will have this, but if you do, why 
not post it. An additional option would be to post your Country 
also, because that might affect how someone might reply to you, 
especially if you're looking for paper sources, distribution, 
companies, etc.

d) I have no idea how to address the whole "thread name" thing. 
But I think I have missed some good stuff because I've NOT 
clicked and read something, because the Header Name didn't 
give an indication that it was something I'd be interested in. But 
I've been surprised sometimes, when I've clicked anyway, and 
then found good stuff, but also that it was unrelated to the Thread 
Name. I don't have a solution for all this. I know some people like 
to sort them and keep the thread name the same, but then if the 
content changes, it seems to invalidate this approach.

e) If all you're posting is a simple "Thank you" to a person, it 
might be better to post it offlist. Just use the pulldown menu on 
the website, and reply only to the individual, rather than to the 
whole group. Again, nothing wrong with a sincere thank you, but 
it's a lot of bandwidth flying around when it could be done more 
efficiently by sending it directly to the one person that you're 
thanking.

These are just some suggestions on how to improve the quality 
of this list.

-Mark Tucker
Nashville TN USA
http://marktucker.com

Mark,

Thank you very much for the excellent advice and reminders. These 
issues seem to require rather constant reminders. Please feel free to 
repost this from time to time!

As a group moderator I ask all the group members to please read 
Mark's post and to do your best to remember and follow his guidelines.

Martin Wesley



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Mark Tucker" <mark@m...> 
wrote:

> This list has much potential. I'm shocked at the amount of 
> volume so far. I will say, in addition, that abiding by some small 
> details can REALLY help the quality of the list. These are merely 
> suggestions:
> 
> a) If you complete the Yahoo Profile, by following Antonis' 
> instructions that were posted yesterday, your Full Name will 
> show up on the posts, rather than the truncated email address. 
> This is useful to identify people more quickly. Sometimes, 
> someone's email address will have no relation to the first few 
> characters of their email address.
> 
> b) At the bottom of your post, please sign your full name. There 
> are many Bills, and Pauls, and Mikes, and Marks out there; with 
> so many posts flying around, it's easy to get people confused. 
> Since we're not discussing personal indiscretions, or interns, or 
> jailtime, there's no real reason to be anonymous.
> 
> c) I also find it useful to see someone's personal URL posted at 
> the bottom of the post, along with their full name. It gives so 
> much more perspective and depth into someone's question or 
> remarks, when you can then go and view their website and their 
> images. Obviously, not everyone will have this, but if you do, why 
> not post it. An additional option would be to post your Country 
> also, because that might affect how someone might reply to you, 
> especially if you're looking for paper sources, distribution, 
> companies, etc.
> 
> d) I have no idea how to address the whole "thread name" thing. 
> But I think I have missed some good stuff because I've NOT 
> clicked and read something, because the Header Name didn't 
> give an indication that it was something I'd be interested in. But 
> I've been surprised sometimes, when I've clicked anyway, and 
> then found good stuff, but also that it was unrelated to the Thread 
> Name. I don't have a solution for all this. I know some people like 
> to sort them and keep the thread name the same, but then if the 
> content changes, it seems to invalidate this approach.
> 
> e) If all you're posting is a simple "Thank you" to a person, it 
> might be better to post it offlist. Just use the pulldown menu on 
> the website, and reply only to the individual, rather than to the 
> whole group. Again, nothing wrong with a sincere thank you, but 
> it's a lot of bandwidth flying around when it could be done more 
> efficiently by sending it directly to the one person that you're 
> thanking.
> 
> These are just some suggestions on how to improve the quality 
> of this list.
> 
> -Mark Tucker
> Nashville TN USA
> http://marktucker.com

Mark,

once again, solid advice. I will upload it as is  under our "List-related Files" 
folder. We can all point to it from time to time.
About the thread names: we often try to remind each other to use relevant 
titles and when it drifts, sometimes to add to rather than change the name 
completely. But as you say there is no simple rule.


Antonis Ricos



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Mark Tucker" <mark@m...> wrote:

> This list has much potential. I'm shocked at the amount of 
> volume so far. I will say, in addition, that abiding by some small 
> details can REALLY help the quality of the list. These are merely 
> suggestions: