Staying on topic can be hard. I suspect Google deemed threads too complicated, but I actually miss the old days of usenet where a discussion could fork and you could let it be if it was of no interest to you. Some forums have moderators to detach OT stuff, but since this group is largely unmoderated by the owners and highly dynamic in content, that's bound to happen. (You guys using mail readers which supports threading via Reply-to id's, are discussions shown threaded?)
On Oct 20, 5:20 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I really love this mailing list. For everything, ranging from > highly-geekly discussions to humour and digressions about how to > pronounce "ye" in Old English, through dissertations of the patents > world or Scala. Really. I'm not using any blacklist for topics or > senders; my only problem is time (not only for this mailing list, but > for all my email), so when I'm in time shortage I just decimate threads, > deciding that I won't follow those having topics that are not in my > primary interests - or sometimes sacrificing those that are, but I > really can't follow. OTOH I usually commit to read all the messages in a > thread that I've started to track, much more if I even participated in it. > > So, you should understand the bit of frustration e.g. returning home > after five days of no-connections, and finding that most of the new > messages in the thread "Excellent article about Google's..." were either > about Old English "ye", or JavaScript and double usage. But I did > discover a useful, in-topic contribution about FOSS, patents and > standards, that I would have missed if I deleted everything on the spot. > > I'm not asking to restrict the range of arguments here - wouldn't be > just possible to apply the old, sane rules of email? Such as changing > the subject when a digression is no more temporary (e.g. "JavaScript and > doubles - was: Re: Excellent article....")? Thanks :-) > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
