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
