On 7 Feb 2002, at 22:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I couldn't read this list for 5 days or so, opened my email program, started >downloading.. > horror, shocks: almost 200 emails of [ql-users] mailing list. > OK think positive, could be a good sign, ql world is alive. > But then..Half of it full with off topic emails (mainly virus talking). > Believe me, it's really hard work to work through all that emails that apparently >don't belong there. > > The problem is, I basically like this list and I am interested in (and need) >information about ql stuff, > but on the other hand you have to pay a huge price / time (time _is_ _precious_) to >find a little > piece of ql information in the piles of off topic (OT) mails. OK, I've kept quiet on this on/off topic duscussion until now. I can understand if people feel muffed by on off topic discussion - this is a QL group, after all.
However, if we take Claus' example - there were 200 emails, half of themm (actually, I presumed at least 75% of them) full of off topic (and, to me, uninteresting) stuff - so let's say, 150 off topic emails. It takes me about 2 seconds to read the 1st sentence of an email, notice that it is off topic and go to the next one- so I've lost 300 seconds (5 minutes) in a 5 days period. Is that really so much? Yes, I'm annoyed that so much bandwidth is taken up with OT discussion - but most of us go OT at one stage or another, so live and let live, huh? Wolfgang
