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

[wjhonson at aol.com]

 Maybe you could explain a little more clearly, how people are "scared" by reading (or just seeing) ten messages on the same topic?  How does that frighten people?

 

 

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From: effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>
To: wjhonson at aol.com
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Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 4:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent  firing?









I would agree with that 'solution' if I would agree with the "delete and ignore" solution, which is, imho, not a solution at all. That is a bit the problem :) And I literally meant scare btw. 




2009/11/7  <wjhonson at aol.com>





 That's right, thats the position of the two sides of this discussion.

I don't know if "scare" is the right word however.  I think the argument is something along the lines of "annoy" or "frustrate".  Mr Dalton put the counter-argument pretty well when it said, it only takes a second to delete an email.  I don't know why you want to go over this again.





There are people on both sides of the issue.  We should just allow this part of the discussion to die.  That's my perspective.  Don't you agree?






<<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". >>




 





 





 






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From: effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>

To: WJhonson at aol.com

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Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 2:20 pm

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












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:











except that this happens in many threads and is a general problem coming


back allt he time.>>








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).









Will