On Tuesday, Jan 28, 2003, at 22:31 Europe/London, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really don't think the anger comes because of people who
occasionally
forget.
Well, the problem is that there have been times when an
accidental untagged post has elicited an angry response.
Ditto when someone's replied to an accidentally untagged
post and accidentally forgotten to check whether it should
have an NJC tag added. And so on.
It's horribly easy to see a thread that interests you,
dive in with the reply button, and snowball one accidental
untagged NJC post into a whole slew, before it gets an NJC
tag wrestled back onto the subject line.
It's no-one's *fault*, and it certainly doesn't deserve
an angry response, so why do we feel like we're trading on
eggshells here in the NJC camp? (OK, OK, *I* feel like
I'm trading on eggshells, and I know I'm not alone here.
And I've only ever posted NJC messages without an NJC tag
accidentally, never with purpose.)
I sometimes wonder if a better solution would be to explicitly
mark Joni content posts with JC. That way, joni-onlies would
never get NJC content *unless* a thread gets taken off-topic.
And even if a JC post goes out without its tag, with luck,
a respondant will quote the original with their reply and
add a JC tag in the process, ensuring that the Joni-onlies
get to see the response *and* the original message.
Of course, with all these JC tags flying about, outsiders
may just think we're a bunch of bible thumpers. (With
apologies to genuine bible thumpers... this is now
tongue in cheek. My own cheek, I should add.)
> But you do begin to recognize those posts that are intentionally
> sent to all in order to disseminate a person's political ideology.
>It is especially irritating when their viewpoints on the unasked-for
> issues are different from yours. Because I disagree with much of
> the political discussion that goes on, I know that I don't want
> this service to involve politics
Forgive me for asking this, but... when a message comes
through to the Joni-only list, with a subject line that
should be NJC, and, say, is clearly political, isn't
the delete key the answer? You don't *have* to read every
message - vast numbers of us on the NJC list do not
read every message, but just surf on by. The politics
doesn't interest me either, but I just skip the posts.
I could read them, no doubt some of them would make me
angry, but I know that, and don't read them. Ergo, I
don't get angry. Sorry if that sounds patronising: it's
really not meant to be, but I don't understand why you
get infuriated when you have a choice.
Ye gods. I'm getting analytical. I'll stop now.
Regards,
--Chris Marshall
chrisAThatstand.org (AIM: Chr15Marshall)
"If you're ever lost, I'll beat the world to finding you"
Stryngs, "Bobblehats and Beer"
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