US/ND-1: Topic Suggestions
Topic Suggestions
Technology Task Force (ttf@abilene.com)
Wed, 28 Aug 96 16:40:36 -0500
The subjects already suggested have generated pages and pages
of comment, but the one closest to my heart has not been
addressesed, yet.
Robert Terry asked for technical standards, and George H Brett
II pointed out the need for definitions of the terms we
'assume' have definitions we agree upon. Standards and
Definitions *must* be explored and accepted, or we can argue
without end, not realizing we actually agree, but are using
different terms to describe the same things.
This is, perhaps, a problem to be first addressed by our
moderator, Bob Carlitz.
[Moderator's Note: This is a good point. I will try to
help provide an overall framework for the discussion as we
go along. For the first few days, however, I think it's a
good idea to let people say what's on their minds. I don't
want to force the discussion into channels which the majority
don't find to be the most important ones to explore.]
Another is the volume of words we transmit by including the
.snip.. to identify the passage to which we are responding.
Short of preserving every response, what else can we do? Is
there not more concise way to identify the initial comment, and
the subsequent responses?
[Moderator's Note: I would recommend that people minimize
quoting of other messages. If you haven't looked at the
on-line archive of messages, please do. It includes indices
by subject, author and thread, which make it pretty easy to
follow a given line of discussion without any quoting of
previous messages. You can find it at
http://www.info-ren.org/projects/universal-service/discussion.html
]
I am not a visitor to 'chat rooms' and am innocent of e-mail
etiquette which might ease my concerns. It does seem that some
have redundant self identifiers in their closings, since we are
to respond only to the given posting address.
With over 250 registered in this seminar, it may tax the
capacity of our storage if everyone must respond each week.