[Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent firing?

[effe iets anders]

without wanting to repeat things I just cant state it much more clearly, so
let me quote birgitte, who started this specific thread:

"Maybe you would have a point if this was and email list targeted at people
who spend every waking hour plugged into the internet.  I realize some of
come close to that.  But that is not the target audience of this email list.
 Nor the Wikimedia movement.  And if those of you who have the temperment
and lifestyle for such participation do not control yourselves enough so
that this forum might succeed in included more than just those participants
similar to yourselves, Wikimedia will be sorrier for it."

The whole point of this discussion is that some people say "dont complain
because you can ignore" and others say "you are making this list less useful
and you scare people off with your emails".

eia

2009/11/6 <WJhonson at aol.com>

> In a message dated 11/6/2009 6:28:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> effeietsanders at gmail.com writes:
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> except that this happens in many threads and is a general problem coming
> back allt he time.>>
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> At the point at which any particular person is no longer interested in
> reading a thread, they should stop reading it.  Then the thread can die a
> natural death, and no one needs to get upset at a few messages a day
> appearing in their mailbox.  As you can see the thread died all by itself.
> On soc.genealogy.medieval, some of the vicious cat-calling threads go on and
> on for a few hundred postings, and get quite nasty.  But they all die
> eventually.  And these are between scholars (self-proclaimed at times).
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> Will
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