On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 7:56 AM Rajesh Mehar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Out of curiosity: What is the difference > > between active and passive lurking? > > In my mind, > > active lurking is reading the post and enjoying the discussion but > consciously (for whatever motive) not responding. > > And passive lurking is mostly not reading the post and discussions but not > LEAVING the list or redirecting to a folder where it's it of view. > > Yes. What Rajesh says. When I was passively lurking I would read a few threads - say once a month, just to see what was going on. Sometimes I've got something big in my life which needs all of my > mindspace, and in such phases processing an interesting idea or discussion > is actually a hindrance, and I will passively lurk through such phases. > > Yeah.
