Posted by Dr. Bob on July 1, 2001, at 20:45:51
In reply to Re: post gets archived the next morning » Dr. Bob, posted by Lorraine on July 1, 2001, at 11:35:40
> > > the people most likely to read my shunted-to-archive posts are probably lurkers (aka "Psycho-Dabblers") who are less likely to respond.
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> > Well, I don't know, why would you assume that?
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> I was referring more to first-time or sporadic users. They're the folks who are more likely to be "looking around" and browsing the archives, don't you think? Conversely, A more-frequent reader/contributor might feel they haven't missed anything in say, 24 hours when in fact they have.OTOH, regulars are more likely to realize that they have in fact missed something and go back to look...
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> It's also occurred to me that "NEW" (ie unread) posts do not appear as such once archived, making it v. difficult to identify the sort of posts Rick's referring to. Would this be as difficult to rectify, Dr. B?
This is something I run into myself every time, you know... I think there are two ways to deal with this, see:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20010315/msgs/1308.html
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> Bob, I think that given the fact that the problem of archiving recent posts is unlikely to be remedied quickly, you might consider a general "loosening" of the no reposting rule for those whose recent posts were archived. I've found this frustrating as well.
OK, fair enough, consider it loosened. :-)
Bob
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