On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 07:51, ed tharp wrote: > First please don't shoot me for posting this in more than one list. > > I am seeing more and more post like this on newbie. > > My patience with newbie is wearing somewhat thin too. I find myself > frequently just marking all messages as read without reading them > because so many are OT of just personal conversations. > > AND > > > I'm sorry, but there is a limit as to how long any of us can tolerate > deliberate bad manners. You have wasted our time and bandwidth with > arguing something that should have been simply accepted as a requirement > of this list - a voluntary mutual help list. > > I know I am as guilty as anyone. > > ?Maybe we on the OT list should make an effort to not chase off so > many folks that do not agree with our political views? > > > or maybe just asking Haywire to return on his better behavior, or > replying to Stephens Kuhn's and Haywire's posts here, and only with a > note that teh reply is over here to save bandwidth?
that 'here' is referring to the OT list at; mdw1982.dyndns.org List-Subscribe: <http://mdw1982.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/mandrakeot>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://mdw1982.dyndns.org/pipermail/mandrakeot/> > > I also have previously invited some other friends, that are in Spain, > that were pretty helpful for the couple of weeks they could stand the > newbie list, but they too were run off by the bandwidth waste (or signal > to noise ratio) on Newbie. But you don't really hear about how many left > because they could not deal with the volume. (kinda like how unhappy > customers are less likely to complain than just go shop somewhere else) > > So.... any suggestions? -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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