The Oil Drum

It's just that YahooGroups are a lot different in their workings...entire posts can be distinct emails.  In here, we're trying to have conversations/discourse about a topic.  A really long comment like that completely hijacks other commenters' ability to discuss what was posted, making your comment the subject of the comment!

What I would suggest on these kinds of topics is, in the comments, post an executive summary that interests people, then link that material you want them to read posted elsewhere (again, perhaps on your blog that you're going to set up today for free over on blogger (because you should!), because work like yours is really good, and should be out there influencing the discourse!)  You could post your best work on your blog that way, and then it's outside of the AB archives so that others can hear your ideas.

Again, this is one of those "unwritten rules"...it's just that one commenter running the comments usually just pisses people off, then we get emails in the TOD inbox (as we did today), then I have to do something like this.  :)