Anno domini 2020 Wed, 28 Oct 16:03:49 -0500 J Leslie Turriff scripsit: > On 2020-10-27 13:25:36 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 October 2020, Michael via tde-users wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 October 2020 11:28:09 am The Joneses via tde-users wrote: > > > > Quoting Janek Stolarek <jwstolarek@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > >> What is your opinion? > > > > > > > > > > I think the amount of spam is negligible compared to the amount of > > > > > off-topic emails sent by > > > > > regular list participants. I have been seriously considering > > > > > unsubscribing from trinity-users > > > > > because some people seem to treat the list as their private chat to > > > > > discuss absolutely anything > > > > > that comes to their mind. I wish the moderators were more strict and > > > > > deleted all the > > > > > TDE-unrelated chit-chat. > > > > > > > > > > Janek > > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > Jonesy > > > > > > -1 > > > > > > Michael > > > (You have me curious at this point, have neither of you worked in an > > > office environment before? Random chit-chat is de facto / de jur for any > > > group of people who have known each other for years / decades. This is > > > also the “users” list, not the “developers” list, e.g. users helping > > > users, so this list will always have random chit-chat as that is the > > > nature of “users” lists. Raging against the laws of the universe is all > > > well and good, but seems kinda pointless...) > > > ____________________________________________________ > > > > I agree with Micheal but I suggest creating an off topic mail list. If it > > hasn't already been done. > > > > Kate > > I doubt that such a list would help. The reason that topics degenerate into > OT stuff is that participants' attention gets distracted from the original > purpose of the thread, so they are unlikely to say to themselves 'am I still > on topic?' If we were all that disciplined OT posts wouldn't happen in the > first place. > > Leslie What's the problem with that? When the world was younger there was even the "nazi-counter" - or, how many postings does it take till somebody makes a reference to some ugly figures from recent history. Maybe because politics tend to repeat history this call for polital correctness is needed? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
