-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Malone wrote: > On 28/08/07, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <<snip>> > > 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. > I totally agree on this. Using the "Delete" button (and ofcourse Karl asking us to 'Just do it and shut up '") is not a solution. Actually Karl's off-context messages reminds me of a one "Ilias Lazardis"[1]. Now, Karl is definitely not clogging up the lists like Ilias had done (on a few Java IDE lists that I was a part of), but none the less, it is getting annoying :-) Thankfully the other lists could be moderated and thus the Ilias's evaluations moved onto other products. later, Rogue 1 - http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.foundation/msg00167.html Do dig deeper into the links provided in the above posting. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG1HyTceS9IQvx51YRAupAAJ48lJnXzKQgpqyAd/C1UEocLBmUggCfQ+lG xczF4KIXeBzECYdu507nU54= =hfiv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
