RE: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-09 Thread Robert Taylor
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:56 AM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio right. I apologise for extending this thread even further, but I have email rage.. 1) Don't call me a BRIT. It's f**king offensive

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-09 Thread alex . bond
right. I apologise for extending this thread even further, but I have email rage. 1) Don't call me a BRIT. It's f**king offensive, or I find it so anyway. You don't find us calling you YANK do you? 2) How come as soon as KJ sticks his head over the wall to make a pretty valid point about the li

(313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-09 Thread Mark S . Krüx
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > i'll bet you theo occupies more e-mails on this list than anyone else. > > is there a way to check that imaginary stat? > In my deleted items folder (since 04.30.02): 1556 w. Theo 15568 313 total It would seem Theo takes up about 10% of posts.

Re: (313) Anyone want to get a burger 2moro after work? was (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-09 Thread yussel
double posts are even worse for 'noise' On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Ralf Gill (healthAlliance) wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: David Bate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 8:45 a.m. > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: (3

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread David Bate
> I don't mind a bit of noise to be honest, if there was less chit chat do > you > all feel there would be more people from the D here, is that what this is > about? What next - We need more one eyed lesbo women in wheelchairs :) > Actually , I think what is wanted is not more people from the D h

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Martin
mmm So are you blaming UK people for bringing the quality down then? If they didn't post here who would then? 313 is just about living or being in the D - crikey what a box to put what we do in! If mail from certain people drives you mad, just set your mail up to delete them. martin > > On

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Martin
> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:12 PM Subject: RE: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio > It seems to me that, as a self-moderated list, what the 313 list is supposed > to do is - this may seem a little radical - moderate itself. By this I don't >

RE: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Brendan Nelson
It seems to me that, as a self-moderated list, what the 313 list is supposed to do is - this may seem a little radical - moderate itself. By this I don't mean converting the 313 list into a web forum or installing some vengeful and pedantic autocrat as arbiter of what should or should not be discus

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread John Patterson
Wow...just joined and can see the issues already. Has anyone ever considered putting the mailing list into a password protected forum? You have enough replys where it would be a better functioning system of delivering the information. With email you cant sort by subject and pick and choose what to

RE: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Steward, Tim
TS1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:39 PM To: synthetic tom Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio just one more from me on this topic (noise) and then I'll shut it. ;) I can see all the

(313) Anyone want to get a burger 2moro after work? was (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Ralf Gill \(healthAlliance\)
-Original Message- From: David Bate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 8:45 a.m. To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio > correct me if i'm wrong, but most of the noise i'm seeing today is in > the form of compl

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread David Bate
> correct me if i'm wrong, but most of the noise i'm seeing today is in > the form of complaints regarding noise. kind of ironic, right? Ironic, but that's the way one has to do it, when one is on a self moderated list. We can't write to a moderator and have them step in, it's something that we

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread ubergirl
27;t had time to go thru them all (and I don't like the digest format). But I will go thru them & just delete the ones that I don't find relevant - it's not a big deal to me, but that's just me. lisa - Original Message - From: synthetic tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread yussel
i'll bet you theo occupies more e-mails on this list than anyone else. is there a way to check that imaginary stat? On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, synthetic tom wrote: > correct me if i'm wrong, but most of the noise i'm seeing today is in > the form of complaints regarding noise. kind of ironic, right?

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread synthetic tom
correct me if i'm wrong, but most of the noise i'm seeing today is in the form of complaints regarding noise. kind of ironic, right? delete takes a second. let people say what they want to say. noise is an inherent part of any community, online or real life. and here's my attempt to start

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Fred Heutte
I join Greg Earle in the Society to Suppress >> Ditto to all comments about the overflow on 313. I have about 2200 messages from 313 since January 15 in my archive. That's an average of 42 a day; weekdays are usually considerably higher; a few days have been over 100. I have given up reading any

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread kj at technotourist dot org
On 8-mrt-04, at 19:10, Robert Taylor wrote: Isn't this just because there are more people into Detroit music in Europe and the UK? There certainly more events going on and the people are closer to each other geographically than in the US, so they have more to talk about. That might be true b

Re: RE: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread ubergirl
for the first time last year, but it's been an important musical connection for me for years. lisa (admits to being off topic sometimes - LOL) - Original Message - From: Robert Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 8, 2004 1:10 pm Subject: RE: (313) 313's Signal

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Kent williams
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > if you go see surgeon and want to report on his set, that's great- one of > the reasons I sub. But all the little in jokes are pretty tiresome for > thos eof us who live in the diaspora. > yeah and all that talk about 'the telly' and 'knees-up' and '

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread yussel
i'll agree with the fact that there seems to be a pretty large brit contingent who have turned this list into their own little chat-room for talking about last weekends activities. if you go see surgeon and want to report on his set, that's great- one of the reasons I sub. But all the little in jo

RE: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Robert Taylor
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 6:05 PM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio Agreed ... hasn't anyone noticed that hardly any Detroit people post here anymore? I just looked at the first Digest from Jan. 2000 and almost all the posts (except for

Re: (313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread Greg Earle
On Mar 8, 2004, at 17:41 PM, KJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No it means that the last couple of weeks 90% of the e-mail goes to my trashcan. I don't mind some chit-chat on this list but lately it got out of control. I have been on and of this list the last couple of months just for that reason;

(313) 313's Signal to noise ratio

2004-03-08 Thread kj at technotourist dot org
No it means that the last couple of weeks 90% of the e-mail goes to my trashcan. I don't mind some chit-chat on this list but lately it got out of control. I have been on and of this list the last couple of months just for that reason; the much of topic e-mail and one-liners. If you want to t