It is quite obvious that people should not include endlessly repeated long footers. The idea of editing posts to say what is essential is a fairly objective matter. Sometimes some commonsense is required to know whether to include all the previous to and fro's (if it is a long running post, closely related time-wise, then no is the common sense way).
As for what should be discussed, this is defined pretty well in the rules of this group. You seem to favour a purely technical list, fine, I could live with such. But who really favours letting folk never bothering to edit? As for a more purely "technical" direction, it is fun sometimes for people to make jokes, to rave on this or that, to vent some gripes against practices that impinge on their continued enjoyment of PCI Macs and so on. I think the list nannies do an overall good job, sometimes in difficult circumstances, to control things, and sensibly let some things roll a while. David Elmo > Subject: Re: [PCI] Please edit posts and while we're at it ! > From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > on 5/30/04 9:35 PM, Fluxstringer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Dave Elmo wrote of people not cutting footers off of their >> replies in multiple posts. >> >> Another bothersome practice that has been prominent lately are posts >> which spin off the thread in an entirely new direction without >> changing the subject line to reflect that. When this happens in a >> thread which has a subject line of broad interest the thread becomes >> horribly twisted. >> It becomes a waste of time to view the misidentified spinoff posts >> for those who are not interested in that associated but diverted >> subject. > > > Another bothersome practice is to spin off and discuss issues that are not > about PCI Power Macs. ie: Business practices, ethics, morals, politics, > religion, etc..... There are better forums or lists for all of these items. > > Just my 2 cents worth. > > Ron -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
