I don’t like rules and I don’t want to be bothered with more filter strings in
the subject, but a POL filter would be nice. Or should that be [POL]?
From: Ryan Ray
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 1:19 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] List topics and verboseness of non-WISP
non-businessrelated discussions
I've been a quiet member of this list for almost 10 years now and I like the OT
stuff, except for the trump/politics. Would anyone be up for a hard and fast
rule of no trump / politics talk? That seems to be where the majority of the
garbage was from these last few weeks.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I am giving up Trump posts for Lent....I am thinking of showing up at Animal
Farm.... Promise no weapons on my person ...Just have to move stuff around..
On Mar 1, 2017 12:44 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
And I do have to say thank you to Paul for keeping this thing alive.
Without him it would have died.
From: Chuck McCown
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 12:37 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] List topics and verboseness of non-WISP
non-businessrelated discussions
I agree, it gets out of hand.
Sometimes I say something but most of the time I let the self policing
nature of the list do what nature does.
For many of us, this list is as close to social media we want to go.
Many of us have been on here since it was part-15. 15 years or so.
Personally I don’t have any desire for the list to grow or shrink or change
other than to remain a place where we can hang out. This list is most
certainly not a “safe place” and you will not see trigger warnings unless you
see the occasional literal “trigger warning”. It is kinda like a friendly bar
that I can hang out in without my Mormon neighbors seeing me parked out front.
Once upon a time Doug Clark was a semi offical list daddy. That lasted
until Doug got pissed about something.
As always ALL opinions will be more-or-less welcomed.
From: Paul McCall
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 12:25 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] List topics and verboseness of non-WISP non-business
related discussions
I shared this with Chuck McCown, and he suggested I share this with the
list directly, so here goes.
Just FYI, in my normal business conversations with WISPs, I get one or two
people a week tell me they no longer look at the list because of all the BS,
politics, etc. I also don’t use AFMUG nearly as much as I used to because of
that.
While it costs me $$ for every email sent (I have never complained), AWS is
very solid and reliable, so it was a great choice. That’s not the point of my
comment.
People need to take that junk to some other venue, so we can focus on
important technology and business needs, IMO.
It probably won’t change but it’s my 2 cents.
Paul
Paul McCall, President
PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc.
658 Old Dixie Highway
Vero Beach, FL 32962
772-564-6800
pa...@pdmnet.net
www.pdmnet.com
www.floridabroadband.com
