Thanks Tony. Everybody on the List knows how hard you work so no complaints on that, and I would apologize if I offended you in any manner in my original posting. Now it is down to people's self-consciousness to realize that this List isn't the very appropriate place for such long and annoying threads going off-topic more and more.
Regards, Alex Z -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] ADMIN: was RE: Density vs Dynamic range>AUSTIN (2a) - To the MODERATOR On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:12:58 +0200 Alex Zabrovsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Austin and Isidoro, thanks for your support of my point of view, but I > see > this thread isn't going to be shut down. I wonder where is our Moderator > disappeared. > A while ago I accidently raised up some issue doesn't related to the List > topic just by one email and was almost trashed by the Moderator, but in > this > case, spoiling the List's bandwidth heavily almost nobody cares. The moderator is up to his neck in real-life problems right now. When under pressure, which has been considerable lately, list admin has to take priority over participating here usefully. I got 3hrs sleep last night, so please excuse the rather ratty following response:- Look, mailing lists are very simple: - world-class pedantry, circular quibbling over terminology, and simply being crushingly boring are not against the rules of this forum because someone (me, probably) would have to make an editorial decision about every single message. Which would generate howls of 'censorship!' and 'hey, I was interested in that', and I'd be rightly criticised. I don't have the time either. - where a thread descends into abuse or hatred, I will put a stop to it immediately. But I can't invigilate against what I might consider egotism or self-indulgence, especially when on-topic. People are grown-up enough to formulate their own opinions, and make their own decisions about what to do. - even the most tedious thread has a finite lifespan. It will go away if and when people start ignoring it. Starting several new OT threads is less effective than (as a few sensible people have) mailing me personally off-list. This gives me a chance to measure disaffection. And please guard against the 'must have the last word' syndrome - it doesn't matter who does. - the solution to lack of content you find interesting is to ask the questions you want answered, raise the points you want discussed - as the driver of your own email software, you can far better than I can whether or not to read or delete or ignore anything that doesn't interest you - I am not preventing anyone from leaving this list. As far as I knew (until as posted here yesterday) the listserver was correctly processing unsubscribe mails. I now have more work to do trying to trace whatever malfunction caused the server to deny the list existed. Since 14/6 to 19/6 it processed 2 subscribes and 6 unsubscribes correctly, so it may have been some transient error. But if anyone wants to leave and finds they cannot, please mail me personally - [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will remove you manually. - Finally, can I ask the posters to the Density vs Dynamic range thread to please wind it up within 48hrs, unless there is something fresh to be said. And please can we end this discussion here too. Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info & comparisons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body