--- On Mon, 11/2/09, wjhonson(a)aol.com <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
From: wjhonson(a)aol.com <wjhonson(a)aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:55 PM
Personally, I process about two or
three hundred emails per day (yes per day), so the small
amount of noise the Foundation list creates is negligible to
me.
If someone is so annoyed by a thread, that they can't even
bother to DWR (delete without reading) based merely on the
subject title, I would think we need to question whether
that person has the right temperament for the internet
whatsoever. I delete at least two or three dozen
emails every day without reading them, if I already know the
subject is not going to be of "interest" to me.
I would submit the real issue here, is not that people are
doing that or could, but rather that they have a compulsion
to *keep reading* the thread. Sort of a, "I don't want
to be left out, or I want to keep watching the train wreck"
or something. I'm not a psychologist. I do know
however, that the entire issue of "let's close this thread",
"let's moderated these people", " this is too noisy" and so
on, is endemic to the entire email world. Not merely
this list.
I can't think of any list I'm on (and I'm on a few dozen),
where the issue does not come up with regularity. It
is merely part of the way internetlife is, in my opinion.
"The right temperment for the interner?"
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.
On a personal note, last week I have gone to having the responsibilities of three people
jobs, instead of only those two I have been handling for most of the past year. Maybe I
will resubscribe when I can hire people again. Good luck with making sure this list is
worth re-subscribing too. I truly hope you all succeed with that.
Birgitte SB