[Air-l] Digest mode?

[Maria Bakardjieva]

I haven't been following all the events on the list lately, but the
difference for me was that I used to receive the list in the form of a
digest, which meant one big post per day. With the recent changes, I am
receiving all individual messages and do find this unusual and annoying. I
suppose there are instructions somewhere as to how to get back into digest
mode, but it is hard to find time and patience to look for them. I
personally don't want to unsubscribe.

Maria


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy J. Shapiro" <jshapiro at fielding.edu>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] online group dynamics


> I imagine that there are people who, when they first discover the
Internet,
> with excitement and enthusiasm join all kinds of lists with the idea of
the
> infinite possibility of everything that is out there, everything that they
> would like to keep track of and be involved in, and so on, but, being real
> people with real-life constraints, they don't really have time to keep up
> with these lists and don't really participate in them, but just let this
> mail accumulate on their computers that they occasionally -- every few
> months or every few years -- delete them.  Or maybe just save them for
some
> vague time in the future when they imagine they'll have time to look at
> them.  Then one of these lists will act up -- there will be a lot of
> communication on it or there will be some kind of repeating messages such
> as "unsubscribe" -- and all of a sudden these same people suddenly feel
> that they and their computers are being overwhelmed and swamped, and so
> they suddenly feel the need to get off the list or lists, but they never
> really paid attention to the list or the original instructions as to how
to
> unsubscribe, and, being now in a panic, they don't even pay attention to
> the fact that these very unwanted messages contain unsubscribe
> instructions, and so they just start sending "unsubscribe" messages.  So
> these people may very well be not people who specialize in Internet
> technology but rather just were vaguely interested in the list or the idea
> of it.  I think many of us have seen this same phenomenon happen on many
> lists, and the people who are sending unsubscribe messages tend to be
> people who are only peripherally connected to the list.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> At 06:28 PM 8/17/2004, your brain seems to have output the following:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> I was thinking along similar lines as Guillaume earlier today.  How funny
> that folk who supposedly specialize in internet technology/online
> communication (right?) can't follow simple directions!  I *hadn''t* moved
> to the level of analysis of considering that some folk might be doing it
on
> purpose, just to get a rise out of somebody else.  :-)    I tend to
> privilege a more habitual (unconscious?) behavioral explanation of folks
> not paying complete attention, becoming annoyed, and reacting from the
> annoyance, instead of dealing with the lack of presence.   :-)
Guillaume's
> leap implies more agency for the individual.  I like it!
>
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