An example would be how often times someone asks for some help trouble shooting something. The types of responses often come out like this:
inaccurate advice
accurate advice
argument against bad advice
argument against good advice
argument for bad advice
argument for good advice
unrelated questions about side issues
discussion goes off-topic completely
people argue about topic changing
the person who asks the question repeats it because they never really did get the help they needed ....
This is obviously not always, if it were, none of us would hang around, but thing is, if we argued less and heard each other out more, things would improve. All of us get drawn into this, myself included.
David
On Nov 3, 2003, at 2:38 PM, Mitch Hogg wrote:
I don't see "offensive" anywhere in his original post. Just "e-mails," the
phrase "back and forth," which would indicate the exchange was bilateral and
therefore not unsolicited, and the suggestion that sending said emails
privately is "improper." I'm guessing you're right, of course. What I was
making fun of was the fact that Laurent didn't say he was talking about
offensive emails in the original post; he just put the smackdown on all
private email.
On 11/3/03 3:27 PM, "David M. Ensteness " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe I misread him but I got the impression he was talking about
unsolicited e-mail of an offensive nature, not off list e-mail in
general, but if you want to overreact, go ahead, most of the discussion
on these lists is one person overreacting to another.
David
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