i'll agree with the fact that there seems to be a pretty large brit contingent who have turned this list into their own little chat-room for talking about last weekends activities.
if you go see surgeon and want to report on his set, that's great- one of the reasons I sub. But all the little in jokes are pretty tiresome for thos eof us who live in the diaspora. On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Greg Earle wrote: > On Mar 8, 2004, at 17:41 PM, KJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No it means that the last couple of weeks 90% of the e-mail goes to my > > trashcan. I don't mind some chit-chat on this list but lately it got > > out of control. I have been on and of this list the last couple of > > months just for that reason; the much off topic e-mail and one-liners. > > I'm with you up to here, KJ ... > > > If you want to talk about non 313-related e-mail that's fine with me > > but this list is not the place for that. Create your own > > list/forum/chatbox for that. I like 313 I have been on it for almost > > 10 years, well maybe 9 and I like discussions and no I don't mean that > > there is no room for something else then Techno created by people whose > > phone number starts with 313 but at least it has to have some relevance > > to the subject... > > Agreed ... hasn't anyone noticed that hardly any Detroit people > post here anymore? I just looked at the first Digest from > Jan. 2000 and almost all the posts (except for Cyclone and the > Dutchies) were from Detroit/Michigan peeps ... > > > now start shooting me... > > OK, I will start shooting you for this :-) > > Everything was fine up to here, then you blew it by one of my > pet peeves: including all the previous text you were replying to, > including the endless "Channel Four Television Corporation" > disclaimers (yes, I know the actual posters can't do anything > about that themselves) and "Entergy-Koch Trading Limited" > isclaimers and whatnot. C'mon people - how hard is it to select > text with your mouse and press "Delete"? I can do it - surely so > can all of you. > > - Greg > >
