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On 28/08/07, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(Mauriat M )
>> Please do not top post.
>>
>> So does a "public forum" imply anything goes?
>> Should a mailing list named 'fedora-list' be for Fedora related topics?
>> Would it be better that everyone explains how many beeps their new
>> power supply makes? Or how shiny the new glass is on the case? -- What
>> could anyone get out of that?

> hey mauriat...
>
> i'll say the same things i've said for over 25 years...
>
> if you really want to be on a list where you can control the content listed
> by various users... start your own moderated list. there's no reason why you
> can't have 10 million fedora email lists!!
>
> however, given that you have a public list, then yeah, you're going to get
> posts that you might not think should be on the 'list'...
>
> i'm sure we've all seen msgs that we might have felt shouldn't be on the
> given list that we're looking at... we deal with it, use the delete key..
> and keep cruising.
>

There is on one hand the occasional off-topic post sent
because it might be of interest or relevance to a decent
set of posters or because, while it may not be the best
forum, the poster thinks they will get a decent answer
here.  On the other hand there is the continued abuse
of a mailing list which probably has a few thousand
readers (I count 571 different posters during July) to
publish someone's thoughts on life in general.

Some people have suggested that a blog might be a
better place to do that.  Some have said 'oh just delete
it if you don't want to read it (and stop being such
killjoys)'.  It is unreasonable to expect hundreds of
people to keep downloading and deleting your emails
because you can't be bothered setting up a blog
and a news feed especially when it's so easy to do
these days.

FWIW.

-- 
imalone


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