Hoi,
It is not about you.. it is about US ... and some of us are not like you, do
not agree with you and have a different outlook on this... Please get it
that most people do not have the time to waste on so many e-mails.
There is also the fact that most threads including this one do not stay on
topic and consequently sometimes they become interesting.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/11/2 <wjhonson(a)aol.com>
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.
Will
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