Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Out of the stone age

2010-08-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer

At 7:12 PM +0100 8/25/10, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:


Well, before the list-police step in, this probably isn't
the best place to ask (since it has nothing to do with
CSS per se)...


   That makes it very much the wrong place to ask, let alone discuss, 
unless the question is how to use CSS to make the form look better. 
Since it wasn't, so far as I can tell, the thread is therefore ended.


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Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Out of the stone age

2010-08-25 Thread John D



   That makes it very much the wrong place to ask, let alone discuss, 
unless the question is how to use CSS to make the form look better. Since 
it wasn't, so far as I can tell, the thread is therefore ended.


Perhaps it was implied in the question by saying:

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

You seem to be quite heavy handed these days when the number of postings per 
day is on a reducing scale!  Do you intend to shut down this discussion 
group? 


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Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Out of the stone age

2010-08-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer

At 12:54 AM +0100 8/26/10, John D wrote:

That makes it very much the wrong place to ask, let alone 
discuss, unless the question is how to use CSS to make the form 
look better. Since it wasn't, so far as I can tell, the thread is 
therefore ended.


Perhaps it was implied in the question by saying:

Any and all suggestions are welcome.


   The problem was framed as a problem of generating a huge amount of 
markup from a legacy system.  If it had then included something like 
how do I make this page look better with CSS? then that would have 
been on-topic.  Tacking on a wide-open question such as the above 
does not imply that such a question was asked, however.


You seem to be quite heavy handed these days when the number of 
postings per day is on a reducing scale!  Do you intend to shut down 
this discussion group?


   Assuming that taking administrative action twice in the past few 
weeks constitutes quite a heavy hand, then my hand has become heavier 
due to the increased number of off-topic postings.  For some time, 
the community was essentially self-regulating.  This seems to be less 
true of late and so I have taken a more active role, as has sometimes 
been the case since I founded the list back in January of 2002. 
Until the list really is shut down or I have handed the reins over to 
someone else, that will not change.  And if I should have been more 
active over this past summer, then I apologize for my neglect.
   Moreover, I pity the members of any mailing list whose metric of 
success is quantity, not quality.
   As I said before, this thread is done-- though if the original 
poster would like to start a new thread which re-frames the problem 
in an on-topic way, that would of course be fine with me.  Anyone who 
has questions or concerns about my administration of the list is 
always free to contact me off-list at 
css-d-ow...@lists.css-discuss.org or at the personal address I'm 
using to post this message.


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