On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr <degco...@cox.net> wrote: > OK-I guess I have enough of my own family and want MB here- I have unsubbed > many times but come back to see If the number of OT's that I have to delete > is less than the MB content ones. Unlike, Gary I am interested in how much > Mobil 1 somebody burns or uses-I am a gearhead. > I won't push this any further-I have had my say. > Dwight
I would like to voice my opinion on this issue. I am as much or more, a tech head than a gearhead. I am subscribed to *multiple* tech lists. Some of these have a very strict on topic rule. NANOG (The North American Network Operators Group) and NERC (North [American] Electric Regulatory Council) are some of the strictest. With these groups, I do read or interact with them when I have a technical issue arise. Otherwise, my current unread message header is showing 1,718 for NANOG specifically. I do *not* read the group, just to read the group. Nor do I interact with *any* of the list members just to interact. If I do not have a need, I ignore them. If this group went strict on topic, I'm very afraid it would die. As a matter of fact look at the MB Vets list that Kaleb also runs. The last post on there was from last week, asking if the list was still alive, because the last post before that was several months before. The entire reason this group works the way it does is *because* it is off topic tolerant. People are here *reading* the discussions, not ignoring them. So that when a relevant on topic question is asked, it gets noticed, and responded to, and responded to, and then fought about. The Vets group, a question gets asked, then ignored, and then 6 to 7 years later an answer comes along. By which time you've either sold the car because you couldn't figure it out, or you've asked the question here and gotten an answer. Just my two cents, EdB -- "I'm a Night Elf Mohawk!" - Mr. T. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
