** Sometime around 00:38 -0800 12/02/01, Chuq Von Rospach sent everyone: >Vince Sabio: > > >FWIW, it is not uncommon for us to receive off-list messages of > >thanks whenever we kill an off-topic thread. It seems that the folks > >who enjoy -- or even tolerate -- such threads are well in the > >minority, though of course it varies > >I'm not sure that's a safe assumption. Unhappy people give feedback. Happy >people don't. fact of life. So you'll hear from folks who appreciate you >doing away with something they don't like. You'll rarely hear from folks who >say "I want off-topic stuff".
I disagree, Chuq -- if people don't like the fact that an off-topic thread was killed, well, then they are, by your definition, "unhappy" and thus would be disposed to contact us. Correct? Probably ... we *do* often receive complaints on terminated threads -- though typically from those who were participating in the subject threads, themselves. __________________________________________________________________________ Vince Sabio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
