The problem with that Mike, is that those kind of responses very quickly turn any list into hell.
A few years back I was running my own newsserver. When there were a lot of complaints about off topic posts, I checked. There were about ten times as many posts complaining about off topic posts then there were off topic posts. Who was wasting more bandwidth? If you don't like a topic, the way to handle it is to ignore it. The only other workable way of dealing with them is active censorship. The other thing is that the only way anything is going to turn into a long thread is if people are interested in the subject. You may not be, but all the people posting other than "get off the list" in the thread obviously are. I remember that when you came on the list almost the first thing you did is complain about off topic posts. You periodically bring it up again and again. I guess this is getting personal because I for one am getting awful tired of OT posts complaining of OT posts <g>. I seem to be one of the few who defend the list remaining open to whatever the members of the list want to talk about. Maybe the others who want it that way are tired of the endless demands of Digest Subscribers that the list have nothing in it except what they want to read. I would say that the digest is a convenience for people who only want to partially participate in the list. It is after all a mailing list. But if everyone wants to change the list to something other than the list I subscribed to and love, go ahead. It will just no longer be a list where I want to hang out. --graywolf ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:59 AM Subject: Censorship-not > If the rest of us jump all over somebody and give him hell because he's > spouting something we don't want to hear, that not censorship, because we're > in no position to enforce our views--the poster can go ahead and post more > messages on that topic if he wants to. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
