I was still reading and replying though! Just no-one got the benefit (such as it may have been)...
It comes and it goes. Sometimes the noise is fine, sometimes, that one gold nugget of really really important information is hidden among the chaff. In general, I prefer a community atmosphere. But I admit to preferring a s/n of at least 10%!! ________________________________________ From: Tim Vander Kooi [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good NT sysadmin list? I believe that you did drop out a while ago, just not intentionally. ;-) Tim -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good NT sysadmin list? If it weren't for OWA 2010's conversation view, I would've had to drop out awhile ago. Thankfully, the Exchange list isn't quite as noisy. The only other "quality" forums I know of also have high-noise. ________________________________________ From: Ken Schaefer [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good NT sysadmin list? Personally I don't really want to wade through 100 messages deleting 75 of them. When you get 5-600 messages a day, pressing delete for 75% of them isn't scalable. I'm with Ben - can we either have less noise, or can someone recommend a better list? Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Ray [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 6:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good NT sysadmin list? I'd be worried more if that 25% actually took up 25% of my time. But the delete key's a beautiful thing. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Good NT sysadmin list? Anyone here know of a good email list to discuss NT sysadmin issues? Seriously, folks, the signal-to-noise ratio on this list is going to hell. Today we had 15 messages on the definition of a word (here's a tip: www.google.com), 37 on a cartoon, 8 on banjos, 5 on the security of Mac's, 7 that were basically bitching about lack of recognition in one's job, 4 asking if the list was up (email asking if email was working?!?), and 1 get-well wish in a 3-day-old banned thread. That's 77. Oh, and about 20 that were actually something like on-topic. That's a ratio of about 4:1, or 25%. Twenty five percent. Ponder that a bit. Would you work for 25% of your pay? Would you pass a student with a 25% grade average? I think it's one thing to have the occasional off-topic message or thread, or occasional joke. This is something else entirely. This is the occasional on-topic message in a sea of crap. I've seen Stu kill more threads in the past 7 days than I've seen him do in the previous year. Is it too much to ask that people act like adults and exercise a little self-discipline? Whatever happened to "on-topic and low noise"? I realize I've been a sometime contributor to some of this myself, and from this point forward I'm going to strive not to be. I ask that you please all join me in that. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
