mailing lists digests in infoxication age

Mailing Lists Digests in Infoxication Age

Olga RevillaItakora.com

Mailing list digests?

• Recopilation of emails sent to a mailing list.• You receive 1 only mail with all the mails sent

that day.

• Mailing lists you will probably know and participate:– Cadius.– IAI List.– Yahoo Groups.– Google Groups.– ...

A normal day at iai-members-request@lists.iainstitute.org

“Iai-Members Digest, Vol 33, Issue 18”73 messages that are equivalent to...

MS-Word PagesWords

These digests

&

My opinion about them

Why are they soooooo long?

• Many people contributed to the list • Many useless words received

Statistics

12478 wor ds

61 wor ds661 wor ds

11442 wor ds

• Digest total = 24.642 words

IndexInstructions

Real emails

Replied email (not quotes)

Let’s do the laundry!

Instructions

Why not an only hiperlink to them?

Read help and instructions on this list

61 words 7 words

IndexWhy not grouping email by subject?

507 words 258 words

Replied email (not quotes)

12.478 words 0 words

Real email

Head

Body

Signatures (contact info, legal advices and so on)

8022 words

1950 words

1470 words

Real email. Head

Euro IA Jam Session Olga Revilla: …. Ariel Guersenzvaig: .... Louis Rosenfeld: ....

---------- Mensaje reenviado ----------From: Olga Revilla (itakora@gmail.com)To: iai-members@lists.iainstitute.orgDate: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:42:22 +0000Subject: Euro IA Jam Session

Real email. Signature

Euro IA Jam Session Olga Revilla: …. Ariel Guersenzvaig: .... Louis Rosenfeld: ....

Olga Revilla.itakora@gmail.comItakora.comContact Phone: XXXXXXMessenger: XXXXXXX

CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT. The information contained in this e-mail message, including attachments, is the confidential information of, and/or is the property of, Vanguard. The information is intended for use solely by the individual or entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient or you received this in error, then any review, printing, copying, or distribution of any such information is prohibited, and please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail from your system.

Euro IA Jam Session Olga Revilla: …. Ariel Guersenzvaig: .... Louis Rosenfeld:

Real email. Head & signature only on request

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Email: itakora@gmail.com

Signature:Olga Revilla.itakora@gmail.comItakora.comContact Phone: XXXXXXMessenger: XXXXXXX

CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT. The information contained in this e-mail message, including attachments, is the confidential information of, and/or is the property of, Vanguard. The information is intended for use solely by the individual or entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient or you received this in error, then any review, printing, copying, or distribution of any such information is prohibited, and please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail from your system.

Let’s hang the laundry

MS-Word PagesWords

2/3 of words are useless =

2/3 less of words out of first eyesight=

100% noise reducted ?

Still some challenges...

• 30 Word pages• How to do it plain text?• Notify there are previous emails on this

subject

Programmer’s of the world:

don’t let the penguin suffer so more

Thank you for your attention

Olga RevillaItakora.comItakora@gmail.com

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