Please do...I subscribe to several list and would prefer to not receive off-topic e-mails or have to create unnecessary e-mail rules to filter those types of e-mails (no offense).
Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Boudrant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:34 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [PROPOSAL] making a new jakarta list. Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] So we can share our jokes with all jakarta users ... I think there isn't only struts user who drink beer on Friday ;) --- Eddie Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I ... hrm ... :-) > > Even the Great Strut himself (Craig) has made note to those being > offended by receiving "friday-type" messages that struts-user has a long > history of being more relaxed on Fridays, and that such messages were > considered fine. So, we've got Papa Craig's permission to "let our hair > down" come friday. I do think it would be nice if people could confine > that behavior strictly to Friday (this week has gotten a tad out of hand > ...), however, I, nor you, have the ability to set precedent - that's up > to Craig and the "majority" to do. > > Now, seeing as how the majority of folks are not offended by this > behavior, and seeing as how many of us welcome it (on friday) as a bit > of "enlightened distraction", and seeing as how you seem to be in a > minority of folks which don't wish to participate -- yes, I think that > if you find something that offends you it should be your responsibility > to do something about it. > > I'm not trying to be an ass about this :-) I just don't feel you have > no authority over this, and, thus, should get happy and take whatever > steps you deem necessary to "manage" your emails accordingly. I do it - > you can too. It's very, very easy -- unless you have a POS email client. > > ... then that's just *my* opinion - I can't say it's a terribly humble > one though ... > > Regards, > > Eddie > > (I bet if you could show that a majority of folks had an issue with it, > it would be stopped - however, until then, my advice is to get over it, > act like a self-censuring adult, and move on) > > Michael wrote: > > >Do you really think it's reasonable for me to reconfigure my mail > >program to filter messages every time someone decides to create a new > >off topic subject (OT, FRIDAY, BEER, etc.)? Wouldn't it be much easier > >to limit emails to relevant topics? I'm on several mailing lists and > >none of them contain blatant off topic totally useless emails like this > >one does. Really it's totally immature and instead of justifying it by > >telling hundreds of people to reconfigure their mail client I think it > >should stop! > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
