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[Ray Saintonge]

Birgitte SB wrote:

>--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>The success of a communications strategy depends not
>>only on the 
>>information being posted, but on people taking the
>>time and 
>>responsibility to read it.  One of the reasons for
>>this reading failure 
>>is the sheer volume of messages that are issued. 
>>So, at least rating 
>>the significance of the messages would be important.
>> A Board statement 
>>about a newly adopted policy would have a very high
>>rating.  Yet another 
>>person's complaint about being blocked would have a
>>very low one.  
>>Putting numerical ratings on each message would help
>>those with limited 
>>time to choose which ones to read first.
>>
>>If the information has been there and easily
>>accessible for a reasonable 
>>time there is no valid excuse for not being
>>informed. 
>>
>>Ec
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>>
>I am not sure rating is necessary.  The key messages
>worth reading in a thread have links from the summary
>to their archived location.  I would think everyone
>should have time to read the basic summary and if a
>particular thread is something they care about the
>should read the message(s) that are linked to.  And if
>they REALLY care they can read through that section of
>the archive completely.  Of course the archived
>messages is always in english which is a problem for
>those reading translations of the summary.  But that
>would still be a problem even if they were rated.
>
Fair enough, but the ratings could also give an idea to potential 
translators about which should be translated first.

Ec