[Foundation-l] [Fwd: About Alexandria] -> to Usenet ?

Sun Mar 9 14:19:23 UTC 2008

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> This lack of understanding is something you share with other high
>>  volume posters.  When important people start to leave the list,
>>  you don't see this as a loss.  The only important thing is that
>>  you can post, post, post.  Just as the only important thing about
>>  Wikimania is whether you can go.  It's all about you, you, you.
>>     
>
> As a high volume poster, I certainly see people leaving the list as a
> problem. I just don't see myself as being responsible for it. This
> list is not that high volume, as long as you use a decent mail client
> it's very easy to read the threads you're interested in and ignore the
> rest (it would be easier if everyone used a decent mail client and
> didn't constantly break threads, of course...).
>   

I'm not sure what you expect us to take away from the fact that one of 
the people posting the most to the list doesn't see this list as 
high-volume, or their volume of posts as a problem. No surprise, of 
course. But this has nothing to do with mail clients. It has to do with 
the amount of inane bickering, repetitive arguments, and off-topic 
musings that nearly drown out anything useful. I can understand that you 
don't get it, you don't see the problem, because I assume, of course, 
that you wouldn't willingly contribute to the problem. Could you at 
least trust us when many other people besides you are complaining and 
conclude that you are in a (vocal) minority? To me, the fact that people 
complain about the volume of this list and your contribution to it, and 
then you dismissively reply that it's not too high-volume *for you* is a 
bit of an affront.

Dominic