perhaps that people don't know those lists are there, or that there were
already better lists for those subjects? ;-)
(it hasn't been years since there's been activity there, but
considering some of the foolishness i've seen on the BioD list, i'm not
surprised it doesn't get more action,...)
cheers!
e
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Yes, I have the vets list, the biodiesel list, the SL list etc just
for those people who only want to talk about those type of cars, and
no off topic posts. Those lists are dead and have been for years.
What does that tell you?
Ed Booher wrote:
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
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