[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[wjhonson at aol.com]

 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 at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at 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 at 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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