RE: [asa] Flood of emails

In marketing parlance, the forum is a discontinuous innovation while email
is continuous. Continuous innovations facilitate uptake while discontinuous
ones don't.

People are in the habit of checking their email daily and therefore read ASA
emails that they would otherwise likely not read if they had to go out of
their way to do so. I STRONGLY prefer email to forums or blogs. In fact, I
hate blogs and never use them. I agree it is a good decision to stay with
email if the intent is to facilitate discussion.

One thing you can do in your email is to setup a filter in your Outlook or
mail client to forward all incoming ASA emails to a certain folder and you
can read them later without polluting all your other incoming personal
email.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of George Cooper
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:32 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Fw: [asa] Flood of emails

 Thanks Terry, that means that most everyone at least knows about it. I am
 still curious, however, why emails are prefered. I find both equally
 personable, but the forum has several advantages.

 I'll keep checking the email flood by asking "How high's the water Mama?"
 and see if it, hopefully, keeps a risin'. :)

 GeorgeA

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry M. Gray" <grayt@lamar.colostate.edu>
> To: "George Cooper" <georgecooper@sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [asa] Flood of emails
>
>
>> George,
>>
>> Several times we have polled our group here about this and each time a
>> slight majority expresses preference for continuing with an email based
>> discussion rather than a forum based version.
>>
>> That's why we continue.
>>
>> TG
>>
>> On Dec 10, 2007, at 7:54 AM, George Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, it is a more than I would like to see, but it is hard not to
>>> address these interesting topics.
>>>
>>> I would like to know why the ASA forum
>>> [http://www.asa3.org/members-only/ASAforum/ ] is not being utilized. It

>>> is much more orgainized, and it provides a great reference for future
>>> use. The phpbb format is quite popular and works smoothly. I can even

>>> edit my poor grammar.
>>>
>>> Are there some good reasons why we are only using emails instead? I
>>> feel like we are out in the rain with our backs to our home's open
>>> door.
>>>
>>> GeorgeA
>>>
>>> PS - Oh, and in the forum we don't have to redo our emails because we
>>> forgot to address them to the group.
>>
>> ________________
>> Terry M. Gray, Ph.D.
>> Computer Support Scientist
>> Chemistry Department
>> Colorado State University
>> Fort Collins, CO 80523
>> (o) 970-491-7003 (f) 970-491-1801
>>
>>
>>
>

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Received on Tue Dec 11 10:18:37 2007