Dan wrote:
> But that doesn't help those of us on digest mode (probably a majority of
> the overall subscribers), whose digests consist of a huge number of
> "coupon" posts and advertisements.
>
> Rick doesn't want to "ban" Peter's posts, and for those looking for
> deals, I agree with Rick that they are useful. HOWEVER, Simon's idea is a
> good one. Peter should set up his own "deals" list for those who want his
> commercial postings. This isn't really the best forum for that, IMHO.
Then maybe they should just be posted on the community page
> True, but Peter's posts are often several each *day*. It's nothing
> against Peter, or "deals." It's the quantity.
I realize that and have personally discussed it with Rick myself.
>
> >I have never heard any one from the US complain about all of the
> >posts from other countries. Until all of the countries in the free
> >world realize that we now live in a Global economy, we are going to
> >be stuck with things like this happening.
>
> It has nothing to do with country of origin for me. It has to do with the
> ratio of commercial/non-commercial posts increasing dramatically since
> Peter starting posting. There are times I've simply deleted the digest
> without reading it because I can see from the message summary that it's
> mostly ads or talk about ads. I'm sure other people do this, as well.
> When that starts happening and more people stop reading the list digest,
> the quality of the list goes *way* down. So it's not just to appease
> people who are complaining -- it's to keep the quality of the list high.
>
> Dan, three years ago there were many more posts that were good MD related
> posts. Look at the list today. We get a ahnd full of truly on target posts
> and very few people participate. The quality of the list has gone down not by
> any fault of Peter's.
With all of the new long play MD stuff, you think we'd be getting dozens of
posts a day that are on topic and very specific. But that just doesn't seem to
be the case.
You eliminate people like you, Jim Coons, the Rat Man, The Prince, David T. and
about 6 or 12 other people (I'm not including myself and the crap that I
"contribute"-I'm not sure that "Crazy Larry" is much of an asset to this list)
and the only posts left are going to be from Peter.
Larry
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