I would agree with that 'solution' if I would agree with the "delete and
ignore" solution, which is, imho, not a solution at all. That is a bit the
problem :) And I literally meant scare btw.
2009/11/7 <wjhonson(a)aol.com>
That's right, thats the position of the two sides
of this discussion.
I don't know if "scare" is the right word however. I think the argument
is
something along the lines of "annoy" or "frustrate". Mr Dalton put
the
counter-argument pretty well when it said, it only takes a second to delete
an email. I don't know why you want to go over this again.
There are people on both sides of the issue. We should just allow this
part of the discussion to die. That's my perspective. Don't you agree?
<<The whole point of this discussion is that some people say "dont
complain because you can ignore" and others say "you are making this list
less useful and you scare people off with your emails". >>
-----Original Message-----
From: effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>
To: WJhonson(a)aol.com
Cc: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 2:20 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent
firing?
without wanting to repeat things I just cant state it much more clearly,
so let me quote birgitte, who started this specific thread:
"Maybe you would have a point if this was and email list targeted at
people who spend every waking hour plugged into the internet. I realize
some of come close to that. But that is not the target audience of this
email list. Nor the Wikimedia movement. And if those of you who have the
temperment and lifestyle for such participation do not control yourselves
enough so that this forum might succeed in included more than just those
participants similar to yourselves, Wikimedia will be sorrier for it."
The whole point of this discussion is that some people say "dont complain
because you can ignore" and others say "you are making this list less useful
and you scare people off with your emails".
eia
2009/11/6 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>
In a message dated 11/6/2009 6:28:20 AM Pacific
Standard Time,
effeietsanders(a)gmail.com writes:
except that this happens in many threads and is a general problem coming
back allt he time.>>
At the point at which any particular person is no longer interested in
reading a thread, they should stop reading it. Then the thread can die a
natural death, and no one needs to get upset at a few messages a day
appearing in their mailbox. As you can see the thread died all by itself.
On soc.genealogy.medieval, some of the vicious cat-calling threads go on and
on for a few hundred postings, and get quite nasty. But they all die
eventually. And these are between scholars (self-proclaimed at times).
Will