Mr Steinman Your own S/S+N ratio may not be very high if you really think you voted for anything on this list. Journalism majors might have learnt to check their facts better had they learnt their trade (indeed) on a newspaper rather than in the shaded halls of academe. It seems you don't even know which newspaper you're reading.
Your idea of what's "good stuff" might not be everybody's. The range of membership of this list is much wider than you take account of. A journalist ought perhaps to have a better idea of his readers before he starts airing his opinions in what, as Hakan correctly said, is a publication. > > From: Hakan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Trimming email is an arbitrary censorship or can be if all the > >parties do not agree on the trimming... > >I strongly disagree. I majored in Journalism. It's called "editing." See my previous post on this. I've seen much censorship that's been called editing, and vice versa. > >If the original author are not given a chance to agree with your > >trimming, it is by definition a censorship. > >I suspect you are not a native English speaker, and perhaps do not >have access to an English dictionary. Very many list members are not native English speakers. You might not even be in the majority here. Every allowance should be made for non-native English speakers, I will not have them criticised in any way. And you're calling for other people to be considerate to you?? >"By definition" in any common dictionary, it would only be >"censorship" if one managed to keep the original posting from >getting out, but since you're replying to it, it obviously was not >censored in the first place. There are a lot more options to it than that, if one has a bit of skill. >When replying, it is certainly possible to edit someone's posting to >the point that it no longer had its original meaning. This would be >as insensitive as those who insist I scroll through miles of >yesterday's news! Nobody insists that you do anything, Mr Steinman. I see that you may be beginning to learn something about handling incoming information from the below, but don't blame other people for the choices you make and your own lack of skill. >I'm really beginning to see the advantage of NOT getting digest >mode, though -- I could set my email filters to ignore one or two of >those who have not been on the Internet long enough to understand >"nettiquette." > >Part of nettiquette is an obligatory reference to the primary topic >when one diverges. On that note, I'll say that I did vote for >moderation of this list, and will probably ditch it soon if the >S/S+N ratio doesn't improve. There's some good stuff here, but it's >but a single-digit percentage of the total. What nonsense. Keith Addison List owner >-- >: Jan Steinman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >: Bytesmiths <http://www.Bytesmiths.com> >: 19280 Rydman Court, West Linn, OR 97068, 503.635.3229 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
