This Hell I even read it on my phone
I used to laugh at people that did that until I became one of them Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] List topics and verboseness of non-WISP non-business related discussions Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 2:38 PM The whole OT tag, IMO, is a joke. I take 10 seconds glancing at the subject lines, read the ones I want to see, and then delete the rest. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: Another perspective: The additional content drives eyeballs. It shows the list is active. You can't make 100% of people happy 100% of the time. On Mar 1, 2017 2:18 PM, "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> wrote: Maybe defining a little better what OT: ? I use filters all the time. OT: originally meant (to me)... relevant discussions to the business but not necessarily technology. What someone discusses emerging battery technology, or 401Ks for employees, or insurance, etc. etc., it used to be THAT was OT: Sooo…. Maybe BS: or PRS: Political, Religious or Social ? Unless you “identify” your PRS content as just OT: (sorry, couldn’t resist the trans-gender “identify” phrase) – see, I have a sense of humor like the next guy. It’s just become like there is just no limit, and if people (not just me) are going away from looking at the list, we have lost a LOT of good input from folks who are serious about their business, who don’t have time to delete threads. Maybe, I just need more coffee J Paul -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] List topics and verboseness of non-WISP non-business related discussions On 3/1/17 11:37, Chuck McCown wrote: > Personally I don’t have any desire for the list to grow or shrink or > change other than to remain a place where we can hang out. This list > is most certainly not a “safe place” and you will not see trigger > warnings unless you see the occasional literal “trigger warning”. It > is kinda like a friendly bar that I can hang out in without my Mormon > neighbors seeing me parked out front. > If someone has a problem with the off topic stuff marked OT, then they need to learn how to filter it out in their mail client, not get hurt feelings than someone isn't protecting them with a safe place. The only change I would suggest is to always mark off topic as [OT] which makes it stupid easy to create a subject filter looking for string "[OT]" and not worry about the letters o and t in sequence get caught in a normal word. The social aspect of this list is the best part. I've been on lists that went out of control like the old SPAM-L, and AFMUG is not even close to the extreme SPAM-L was when it died. ~Seth
