On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Clinton Jones wrote: > 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? > > 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.
Yes, that was me. I figured the topic was dead days before that, but somehow it was resurrected. So I announced the end of the thread, "Hope springs eternal," right? > 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. Heh, so your complaint is really the boring messages that masquerade as insightful posts on a topic, only to be a pathetic rehash of already-pounded-into-the-ground discussion? (Hm... now I'm wondering if /this/ message qualifies under that description ... hmm...) > 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. Hey now ;-) now you're taking my sarcastical comments at face value! I never said it was a burden (heaven knows I ask more than my fair share of questions on this list), nor that this list was primarily intended for "long flamey threads"--just that, in my opinion, if you take those threads away, there's nothing else interesting on this list to read. (And point well taken about the "long flamey threads" eventually degenerating into rehashes of old arguments and people having a difficult time stopping.) ~ ross p.s. does anybody find it horribly ironic that the email on "How to deal with long flamey threads" has turned into what may very well be a long flamey thread? -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
