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[intelliot]

I've noticed that the Summer Accepted 2006 group has been getting useless posts. While it doesn't personally bother me, some students have complained.

I think that there are some students who have things to say, but refrain from posting it because it's not really important.

Well, post that stuff here. I want to read what you have to say, so please, share your thoughts and jokes with us.

Note that this is a public forum, but if you want a private forum accessible only to SoC'ers, let me know. We can do that, too.

I hope LH and Yevgen don't mind my quoting them here.

Originally Posted by Yevgen

LH wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> So I've been pondering this item. On the one hand, yes some fairly
> useless comments are made on this list. On the other hand, we are
> building a community here.

I am not sure about this: hundreds of mails, half of them is same five
questions again and again (e.g. taxes - eveyrbody has the same
questions - it wasn't clear what was said in Announcement: ... letter),
another half is "Wow, I got accepted, I'm from Antarctica, and you?" .
You won't build a community by sending and receiving tons of mail.
Maybe it's my weird notion of community though.

Anyway, It's not just about useless comments. A simple example: you
post a
message about tax forms. It gets hundred and twenty replies. Those
comments are
important only for their authors, and not least reason for this is that
those comments
do not get answered.

Just look at any Announcement thread and see how many student comments
were answered.

>
> So, that said, here's what I'll do:
>
> 1) Continue prefacing important announcements to the list with
> "Announcement".
>
> 2) If I post something very important in a particular thread that's
> receiving heavy commenting, I will also create a new thread with the
> information, titling the post "Announcement: ...."
>
> 3) If I get a request from *anyone* on this list to create an
> announcement only list on June 19, 2006, I'll create the new list. In
> the interim, if you feel strongly about this topic, please use your
> filters to your advantage.

But I don't want to test gmail and stuff! I want to get information
about what documents I need to get sent to google. What do I do for
this?
1) Go through N pages and look for "Announcement".
2) Copy the first mail.
3) Go through every comment in the thread, since LH thinks "really
important" means "received not less than thousand comments".
4) write a list of what's not clear for you and try to understand what
to do now. Post a reply to already-thousand-replies thread? Of course!
Google is made of gum, and people use filters to filter it out, so
nothing bad will happen. Though I don't get the information either.

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