On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Trei, Peter wrote:
> Read my post again. My problem was not with
> folks who want to talk or flame on or off topic.
Your problem is your a whinner when you don't get your way or people with
other views manage to stand toe to toe and point for point with your CACL
drivel.
> It is with a person who disregards the entire notion
> of using the list for discourse of any kind.
It is the list operators who make this decision, not the list members.
It's that property thing you CACL folks seem to forget when it isn't your
property.
> He posts things to the list (and thus into the archives)
What and how people use the archives are the archivists decision to make.
Not yours and not the users of the archive (there only decision is it
relevant to their personal goals).
> simply as a storage device - saving him the time
> and trouble of having to save them to disk. He is
> indifferent to whether anyone else reads them or
> not.
Which is relevant how? Take my pointers for example. I get plenty of
feedback on their utility. One regular list member even found some work as
a consequence (and it was relevant to cpunks topics to boot). I also
intentionaly use the archives as a storage so if I, or anyone else, can
get back to them easily. It's that community thing. If you are really that
concerned, as an archivist versus a CACL whiner, about the use of
resources then as the owner/operator you are free to filter as you see
fit.
You're myopic.
> This is abuse of the whole notion of a mailing
> list as a place of discourse. It is a sociopathic
> disregard for everyone who uses the list as a
> place for discussion and persuasion. It is more
> contemptable than even spam.
Bullshit. Just plain and simple. A mailing list exists for the use and
utility of its operators and subscribersk, AT THAT TIME. Not previous
mailing lists, or social expectations writ large qualify as a binding
precedence. Talk about somebody in a rut.
As Jefferson said, the world belonds to the living not the dead.
It's not sociopathic in any manner, opportunistic perhaps. In addition
since there is no harm done to anyone it's a little hard to understand
CACL complaints on these sorts of topics.
Just goes to demonstrate my claim that CACL is really socialist at heart
wanting everyone to do the same thing so a small group can benefit.
What happend, your d key break? procmail quit working?
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