On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Jonas Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Need for list message morphing rule > > Since I am the author of a post that has now morphed into an entirely > inappropriate commentary on how to kill a hd, and since this list is always > monitored and those Niamey's should refuse to publish such morphed replies, > I ask the question in keeping with reducing traffic and staying on point, > why, why are these messages allowed to be published? > > If the reply is entirely foreign to the message topic, refuse it. > > Do not allow morphing! > ______________________________________ > Jonas, The accepted but rarely utilized procedure is to modify the subject line of a post that spins off an idea from a thread. But we have many new folks these days and many of the old timers have moved on to IntelMac or died or whatever. What you call morphing has long been recognized as " highjacking " a thread and we have all done it at one time or another. On the old PCI list it was kept in check somewhat because in those days Listers had more of an eye to actually getting help to those hwo need it. which is the real purpose of the list. Anyone who doubts that or think this is just a place to hang out because it is tolerated should ask Dan Knight about it. But come on guys, if you have a real need to go off on a tangent please just change the subject line of the post. Don't interfere with the real need for a lister to get his machine or system running ASAP. That is why LEM has these lists which have been the best around. Whether they remain that way is up to all of us. i have seen the most unsubscribe error posts in the past few months than in the last decade. Not all of those are because the people gave up on Mac. but soem had to be because they did not get the help they sought here. -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com /in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ http://twitter.com/FluxStringer http://mog.com/FluxMuse -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
