And I never said it is about *me* stop trying to make this personal. I am not directing my remarks at *you*, so stop directing yours at *me*. There are many people on this very list who have said essentially the exact same thing. You should re-read the thread again to make that apparent, if you're not clear on that. Thanks Will
-----Original Message----- From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 3:07 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?
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@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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