--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 1/27/2003 4:08:33 PM Eastern > Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > The only real hostility I've seen on this list has > been in posts from > > Joni-only people, pissed off because someone > forgot to put NJC in the > > subject line. > > Hi Sarah! > I really don't think the anger comes because of > people who occasionally > forget. I think the hostility comes when members > decide that their own > political beliefs must be heard by all, and these > posts are even prefaced > with something like "I realize this is NJC, but it's > an issue that concerns > us all etc., etc." That kind of presumption angers > those of us who don't use > this wonderful service for political discussion.
Even as one who gets everything, njc and all, and often enjoys the njc stuff more than the jc (blasphemy?) I appreciate and understand this. It would totally piss me off. If I had signed up for joni-only and someone tried to do my thinking for me, and decides what they thought was in my best interest, it would irritate the hell out of me. When you consider that most people (I don't know the percentages but every so often Les posts them) are on the *whole* list (whether as digest or as individual posts), anything you post is going to reach most of us anyway. Whether or not someone reads it is another story. I've been deleting the stuff about war like mad. Likewise if a particular poster seems to be posting about the same thing all the time and it's not a subject that I'm interested in, I will sort either by topic or by sender and delete without reading anything that looks like one of those. In the process, I may delete without reading one or two gems, but that's my choice. Sometimes it gets too busy around here as it is. Most of the jc-only people who post reminders do so politely in any case; sometimes tersely but rarely rudely. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
