On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:18:53PM +0000, David Grimes wrote:
Yes you are missing something because you totally ignored my point at the last meeting.
I didn't ignore it. I answered it. And i'll do so again. Mails come into my inbox at a similar rate. I have work, redbrick, assorted mailing lists, and others.
Mails come in to my inbox at a rate or approximatly 7 and hour, and It's gotten to the point my account is having to be emptied several times a week, meaning all mails have to be deleted and thus no record is being kept of what was decided.
As for the space thing, you could always use GMail, or Redbrick, which will both prevent you from having to delete mails for a long period of time. I have all my drama mails that i've ever gotten on redbrick, and i'm not even using up 1/5th of my quota. There's also the list archives, which you can go read/search if you really want.
A board is logical, as it is dedicated to a single group and developements can be recorded and no mails missed.
To me, a board is not logical. Everybody has to read their mail, so why not let us deal with drama stuff at the same time? It's adding more unnessecary work ( going to one extra website to read a forum doesn't sound like much, but it's more than we need to do. ). I'm also less likely to check a board, than I am to check my mail. I check my mail on an hourly basis. I only do this because lots of other stuff comes into my mail at the same time. If drama moves away from that, it will be forgotten. Do I have something that'll notify me of new posts to it? Will i be able to read posts offline ( yes, believe it or not, i *DO* spend time off the internet. However, that's usually travelling between connections )? Can I have a sane user interface for a boards system that won't make me want to tear my hair out? The answer to all of these questions, is no. I would like to see anyone prove me wrong about them ( except possibly the last, but that's just m y point of view.
While you may not care about this, it is quite tiresome to have to delve through tons of tangents in an arseways order and then having to delete them, all this time missing information because one simply has too much bloody spam to get through.
In any sane mail client ( even the DCU webmail ), you can filter mail into seperate mailboxes. Even if your mails are coming in at the *shocking* speed of 7 per hour, that still leaves you 8 minutes to sort each mail, which is more than enough (:
Not all of us have the luxuary of spending most of our college time on a computer in all fairness, and this committee has spent more mails then any other committee before it.
I fail to see how boards have *anything* whatsoever to do with the amount of time one spends online. Unless some new technologies have been invented that I'm not aware of, one still has to be online to read a board. So what if we have more mails? Having a board will just mean we have more posts than any other committee.
A board will allow us to sort our conversations in a logical order, and seperate real issues from fleeting ones, and avoid the mirade of communication issues we have thusfar had.
Hang on. How will it manage that? Does it have a fleeting filter? (: How will it solve communication issues? We're just moving conversations to a more counter-intuitive medium.
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