Hi Lars,
I will try to post less but first I would like to try to give an excuse so I can try to get out of the responsibility for something that really is my fault ;)
No, really, just really quickly: I'm sorry for posting so much. I guess I started to get carried away and began treating wikipedia-l as a forum, and perhaps it wasn't a good idea to respond to *every single message* that was in response to something I said.
mark
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 05:20:43 +0100 (CET), Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Are you fed up with the requests from me for new Wikipedias? Why?
Yesterday I posted one message to this list, the statistics. Now is a new day where I live, and today I will also only post one message, not to wear out the patience of all list members who have to read this. So I must think carefully about which topic to use this message for. This is it: I'm going to tell Mark (node) about my problem with him.
Mark, I have no problem with you requesting new Wikipedias. I have a problem with you posting too many messages with too little substance. It's at the point where I look at the sender and say "oh, it's just node again" and then I skip the message entirely. It's almost like filtering away spam. And I don't like to do that on a list. Now, Brion Vibber posts even more often than you do, but I don't skip his messages, because his are useful.
My whole point with posting the statistics was to make you and some other frequent posters realize this yourself, but apparently you failed to do so, because today you are posting more than ever and with less to say. So I'm using today's message from me to the list to tell you this. I apologize to the list for wasting their patience and I will probably be silent for the rest of the week. I don't have much to say. You have a lot of energy in you, and that is good, but I think you should spend more of it on useful projects and less on the list. Why not try my exercise of limiting your own posting to one message per day per list. It's a little like chess playing, shifting to a lower gear, less motion, more force.
If you comment this message, which you don't have to, I will probably not answer back.
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se