And I never said it is about *me* stop trying to make this personal. I am not directing my remarks at *you*, so stop directing yours at *me*. There are many people on this very list who have said essentially the exact same thing. You should re-read the thread again to make that apparent, if you're not clear on that. Thanks Will
-----Original Message----- From: Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 3:07 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing? Hoi, It is not about you.. it is about US ... and some of us are not like you, do not agree with you and have a different outlook on this... Please get it that most people do not have the time to waste on so many e-mails. There is also the fact that most threads including this one do not stay on topic and consequently sometimes they become interesting. Thanks, GerardM 2009/11/2 <[email protected]> > Personally, I process about two or three hundred emails per day (yes per > day), so the small amount of noise the Foundation list creates is negligible > to me. > > If someone is so annoyed by a thread, that they can't even bother to DWR > (delete without reading) based merely on the subject title, I would think we > need to question whether that person has the right temperament for the > internet whatsoever. I delete at least two or three dozen emails every day > without reading them, if I already know the subject is not going to be of > "interest" to me. > > I would submit the real issue here, is not that people are doing that or > could, but rather that they have a compulsion to *keep reading* the thread. > Sort of a, "I don't want to be left out, or I want to keep watching the > train wreck" or something. I'm not a psychologist. I do know however, that > the entire issue of "let's close this thread", "let's moderated these > people", " this is too noisy" and so on, is endemic to the entire email > world. Not merely this list. > > I can't think of any list I'm on (and I'm on a few dozen), where the issue > does not come up with regularity. It is merely part of the way internetlife > is, in my opinion. > > Will > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
