Daniel Iliev wrote:
Bob Young wrote:
Sorry, I just honestly don't see the any cause of major inconvenience
or damage (aka "mess") here. I'm sure that there must be examples of
threads that were completely "on topic" but you personally were not
interested in, obviously you dealt with those threads in some fashion.
Why is it so difficult to deal with the occasional OT thread the same
way, especially when it's clearly marked?
It's not like the list is overrun with OT threads, nor do I see any
indication that the list is likely to be overrun with OT messages in
the future.
There is no major problem. It's that I (for example) just lost my
interest in the "slaveryware drift" some time ago and now I find it
annoying to see "there are 3 new messages in AMD64" and to discover they
are "oh..in that thread again". So I mark the thread as read and resume
with previous occupation. If I had a simple way to ignore the thread and
check it at will, say once a week, it would be perfect.
Here we can see one of the advantages of the web forums over the mailing
lists - in case like this the moderators in a web forum could just
change the title of the thread and move it into some "chit-chat"
category, dedicated for OTs.
Okay, fair enough, but how exactly how and why is that so different from
3 new messages showing up that are "on topic" but that you personnally
have no interest in reading? In that case wouldn't the end result be
exactly the same namely that you would "discover they are "oh..about
that subject" then you would mark the thread as read and resume with
previous occupation." Unless I'm missing something, the *only*
difference is whether the topic qualifies as being in a particular and
somewhat subjective catagory.
Given your opinion I'm curious as to why you would change the subject,
and in so doing defeat the efforts of the people who might have been
filtering on the "slaveryware drift" subject line.
BTW For everyone else out there....feel free to post something on topic,
this OT thread is already very near it's natural death, some on topic
posts will probably put the final nail in the coffin.
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Regards
Bob Young
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Bob Young
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