On Wednesday 28 October 2020 14:03:49 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > 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 exactly! +1 Bill ____________________________________________________ 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
