[Foundation-l] [Fwd: About Alexandria] -> to Usenet ?

[Mark Williamson]

Actually Dominic, it does have to do with mail clients.

Are you using Cox webmail? That would explain it all.

Mark

On 09/03/2008, Dmcdevit <dmcdevit at cox.net> wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>  >> This lack of understanding is something you share with other high
>  >>  volume posters.  When important people start to leave the list,
>  >>  you don't see this as a loss.  The only important thing is that
>  >>  you can post, post, post.  Just as the only important thing about
>  >>  Wikimania is whether you can go.  It's all about you, you, you.
>  >>
>  >
>  > As a high volume poster, I certainly see people leaving the list as a
>  > problem. I just don't see myself as being responsible for it. This
>  > list is not that high volume, as long as you use a decent mail client
>  > it's very easy to read the threads you're interested in and ignore the
>  > rest (it would be easier if everyone used a decent mail client and
>  > didn't constantly break threads, of course...).
>  >
>
>
> I'm not sure what you expect us to take away from the fact that one of
>  the people posting the most to the list doesn't see this list as
>  high-volume, or their volume of posts as a problem. No surprise, of
>  course. But this has nothing to do with mail clients. It has to do with
>  the amount of inane bickering, repetitive arguments, and off-topic
>  musings that nearly drown out anything useful. I can understand that you
>  don't get it, you don't see the problem, because I assume, of course,
>  that you wouldn't willingly contribute to the problem. Could you at
>  least trust us when many other people besides you are complaining and
>  conclude that you are in a (vocal) minority? To me, the fact that people
>  complain about the volume of this list and your contribution to it, and
>  then you dismissively reply that it's not too high-volume *for you* is a
>  bit of an affront.
>
>  Dominic
>
>
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