Your post is a very poor analogy because asking someone to read the thread is not like asking someone to read the bible. Yes it may be a few hundred posts or more but the longer the thread runs and the later he wants to join it without reading it first the dumber it is to do so because the chances of absolutely redundant arguments/questions goes up dramatically if he missed a really long in depth discussion. Its not something I made up, its common list/forum ettiqutte and considered rude to do so. Here the threads arent ususally as long or in depth were it ever becomes much of an issue but for you to say that he should NOT read a thread when he knows its been a very long detailed one and everybody should have to sit thru and respond exactly the same way over and over needlessly to exact same things already discussed does not make any sense.
Why shouldn't he read it? It might take some of his precious time?, what about all of our time?, its OK to waste many of our time to save his because hes too lazy to learn about what we discussed and keeping asking questions/making arguments that are already discussed/answered in the thread. That makes no sense at all. If you want to join a big thread, READ IT FIRST, then join it. that's how it works. Your posts will be more relevant and of much more value than a bunch of time wasting old stuff already discussed ad nausem. And secondly, this duplication of multiple posts is not just MY complaint, its coming from many other members too. I just happen to be the one explaining the cause of it and the solution to reduce it... jco -----Original Message----- From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:14 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: RE: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request) > If you want to wait fine - then please refrain from this > thread unless you read it all FIRST. I don't think that is > asking anything unreasonable from you. > jco I think that's a great idea. And next time we have a religious argument, nobody's allowed to join in until they've read the whole of the Torah, the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, the Book of Mormon and the Kebre Negest in their original languages. Similarly, there's to be no discussion of Monty Python if you didn't watch every episode when it was first broadcast in the 1960s, nothing about single malts unless you've drunk at least one bottle of each malt from each distillery in Scotland and Ireland. And there's to be no talk about rabid republicans or vapid liberals or scary terrorists until you've all memorised the entire contents of George Bush's brain, Bill Clintons conscience and Osama's book of drinking songs. Graywolf, stick that in the FAQ! Bob
