At 10:37 PM 11/19/2002 +0100, Michael Nordstr�m wrote:
On the contrary, I've been worried sick about you because you haven't been griping about all the top-posters recently. I've been re-arranging quotes in messages I respond to, such that oldest are on top, but the prevalence of what used to be effective bait for you from newer posters, with nary a response, has me concerned about your well-being and vigor. I'm not even sure you've blacklisted anyone, as you promised in http://lists.rubberchicken.org/pipermail/plucker-list/2002-October/000483.html !On Tue, Nov 19, 2002, TIM CONSTANTINE wrote: > It seems to me that a Bulletin Board for communication would have > some serious advantages over this mailing list:As have already been pointed out the "advantages" are already available for the mailing list. If you started to use a differet system for communication then I can point out one major disadvantage: - some core developers will be missing Now, some of you might think it is an advantage that I'm not there to complain about lousy mail etiquette, but in the long run you will still lose if core developers don't take part in the discussions.
(I'm less worried about David because while he too has been quiet on the mail-formatting front, he still pipes up regularly about "standards", somehow presuming that we only care about Plucking content that fully meets the documented standards. I listen to people with less-than-perfect English, I have a less-than-perfect wife, and I enjoy or learn from less-than-perfectly-implemented web sites. Good thing I have the association with the fully-perfect David to help bring the average up! <grin>)
I'm delighted that you are apparently in full health.
I find a mailing list nearly ideal. The only detriments to it are that the odd message is flagged as spam by my filters and I haven't determined why, and that threads I care nothing about still show in my in box. But these are very minor inconveniences relative to having to perform some web action to view activity. I'm not, despite my web sites, career, and plucker involvement, likely to hit a web site with regularlity. I sometimes only hit /. once a day! <g>BTW, I find it a bit amusing that newcomers always are so quick to suggest that we should abandon the mailing list. Do you really think we would continue to use a mailing list if we didn't think it was a good way to communciate? ;-)
-Tony McNamara-
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