On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:44:41AM -0700, Ross Werner was thought to have said: > What I want to know is, what do those who hate the "excessively active > topics" actually read? As far as I can tell, there are two types of posts to > the UUG: excessively active, mostly relatively off-topic [if such a thing > exists], flame-war-type threads ... and questions: "How do I do > such-and-such?" in RedHat or Debian or PHP or SQL or whatever. > > Looking at the archives for February, it seems that those are the only two > types of posts, plus a few emails about club officers and club meetings. > > So what do these long-flamey-thread-haters actually read?! Do they just > consider the UUG-list to be just a free ask-a-question-get-an-answer source? > Or is there some point to the list that I'm totally missing? ... > > ~ ross [who just can't help but start flamewars] >
As one of the most recent complainers about an "excessively active topic", I feel like I should answer this question. I like to read quite a few of these threads, as they are entertaining. However, by the time I posted my last message about the whole Linux vs. GNU/Linux argument, I was very bored with it and felt that nothing really new or interesting was being said (that is my opinion, obviously not in the opinion of those who were still posting). Therefore I decided to post a humorous (to me and a few friends) message complaining about the thread. I think the funniest part was when a message announced the end of the thread, only to have more posts follow within a few hours. Really, I'm not suggesting any changes to the list or the club or anything in particular, but I had gotten bored with that thread. The problem is that I enjoy reading the good arguments presented on the list (even in a flame war), so I can't just divert certain subjects to the trash. I also still think that the good posts I get to read make it worth skimming through all the messages on the list. I was unaware that this list was primarily intended for "long flamey threads." I also thought that we were based on the idea of being a community and helping each other (whether in understanding or actual practical applications of knowledge); I did not know that you considered it to be a burden to answer questions for free. --Clinton
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