Point well made. I will add that contrary to Greg's experience, I have
overlooked information about upcoming rides when the thread becomes bogged down
with lots of other topics. We were talking about this a few weeks ago on one
of the rides. The subject line may say something about an upcoming ride, but
the actual subject matter may be about a Spitfire transmission available on
eBay. Coupled with the fact that my iPhone (and I suspect the same is true of
other smartphones) compiles e-mails by threads first and dates second, I have
several times opened up the Upcoming Ride thread hoping to find out if we're
going out this weekend, or if there's been a location change, or whatever, but
found instead a link to an eBay site. It seems all we have to do is change the
subject line when we want to post on a new topic. My two cents worth.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: nobbc-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:nobbc-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Greg Tatarian
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:00 AM
To: North Bay British Car Club
Subject: [Nobbc] Efficient communications - staying on topic
Tim's comment supports Ron's request that we stay on topic within a thread or
start a new one. Besides being able to search archives efficiently, it also
gives those who want to communicate to the group the freedom to do so without
feeling like they are only allowed to talk about the next drive.
I was the lead instigator of starting an email list for members, and Ron, who
had also been thinking about this for some time, arranged with the Autox group
owner to allow us to use their system (thanks go to Ron and to Mark). Part of
having an interactive email list is being able to discuss all relevant issues
of interest to members of the North Bay British Car Club. As one who has been
an active part of the recent emails, I accept responsibility for my part in
letting threads get off-track, or talking about one subject more than some
folks want to read about.
Keeping our subject lines consistent with a particular discussion (e.g.
no highjacking someone's thread, using separate subject lines for different
subjects), will allow those who are uninterested in a particular subject or
have read enough about it to delete those threads without fear they are missing
out on something important or interesting to them. It will also reduce the
burden on the AutoX server system, as will deleting original text whenever
possible from the email(s) to which you are replying.
I've never seen any important emails about upcoming drives posted using a
previous thread or confusing subject line, or combined with another topic, so
it's unlikely you'll miss a notice of a drive. Those who aren't interested in a
topic or tire of it, can simply delete emails with that subject line and not
lose sleep. But if we've had members drop off the list because of the recent
volume, we might want to tighten up our email communication on this list so we
don't lose any more, but at the same time, not stifle those who want to
communicate about something relevant to the focus of this club.
Thanks,
Greg Tatarian
On 2/2/2011 11:36 PM, BBTim THRESH wrote:
> Hi all from a 4 week trip in England. I have been amazed at the 300+ emails
> going around from you all. So many I deleted most unread... we have to find a
> more efficient way of communicating or I for one will miss the few important
> ones about rides.
>
> Mine is a 1958 MGA (several modificaitons to make it start, run, brake, cool
> and ride better than original)
>
> Hope we can make a meet for the MG even at Infineon in April.
>
> Tim Thresh
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