On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:52 AM, P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo wrote:
My favorite lists are those that actually stay on topic - I am on two PowerBook/MacBook lists, one of which keeps things very inline, so a lot of technical knowledge flows. The other tries to maintain control, but twice a year or so you get someone who tries to challenge the list nannies with their posts (chaffing against bottom posting and continuing on topics that had been "closed"). They are usually quickly dealt with off list and we continue on.
Staying mostly on topic is of course usually a good thing. As for nannies that run potentially TOO tight of a ship... just check out a number of the LEM lists. Some of those nannies are on serious power trips. I swear their "correcting" and "reminding" adds far more list static then the posts they claim are out of control. Granted, much of the posts they complain about may be blocked in moderation, but then, why bitch to the list, yell at the person doing the incorrect post and leave the rest of us out of it.
In fact, the LEM nannies piss me off so much, that I would love nothing more than to unseat the entire LEM Lists and get that whole crowd out of there. Alas, they are so well entrenched at this point, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to take the lists away (ie: starting up new lists just wouldn't gain the momentum of subscribers that makes the LEM lists so valuable in the first place).
So I just grit my teeth every time one of them starts flaring up about whatever it is they are uppity about today, hit the delete button, and move on with my list reading.
-chris <www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
