Re: posting to a blog vs. this list (was: Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?)
30.66 km here ^_^ On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: 2010/1/24 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de what is that ruckus all about? OK Arne, I live approximately 50.5 miles from my parents' house by road, slightly less as the crow flies. How about you? Maybe we should all discuss the distance we live from our parents' houses, if you're so sure this sort of information is of interest to the list. Perhaps I should tell the list about my sex life too, and which friends I speak to about which issues. Or alternatively perhaps we should encourage that sort of discussion to happen off-list, since it's off-topic. I'm not trying to silence Brolin, just asking him to consider his choice of forum more considerately. Doing so will likely be to his benefit in the long run, anyhow, since in an appropriate forum, his personal progress updates and requests for personal advice would be generally welcomed, not just tolerated. That's likely to lead to less tense interaction on both sides. Over and out, Sam ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting to a blog vs. this list (was: Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?)
Brolin, You're clearly well-meaning, but ... 2010/1/24 Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be: Fabian Schölzel wrote: On Sunday 24. January 2010 13:38:27, Stefano Cavallari Cavallari wrote: Why does your reply template include the quoted author’s last name twice instead of only once? Also, you should include the time zone/UTC offset because the quoted time of day is still in the future in the Pacific time zone (-08:00). :) ... comments like these are OT in a thread that's already OT. Going that far OT is likely to annoy people on the list who are, for the most part, subscribers because they are far more interested in open source mobile technology than they are in the minutiae of your opinions about other people's email formatting. (Besides which, the full timestamp of any post to the list can be discovered via the list archive, if anyone is really fussed; so there's no need to police the issue.) What about opening a free blog and write your thoughts/happenings there? I think that's a good idea! I actually already have both a Facebook [1] and LiveJournal [2] account. I stopped posting to LiveJournal because I received almost no feedback except when I sent the URL of my posts to people via e-mail, IM, or IRC. I thought I could get more feedback by posting notes (not status updates because the length limit of those is too small) on Facebook, but I receive no feedback at all except when I send the URL of my posts to people. Lots of people seeking good sources of advice and support run into problems. Blogging's a reasonable start, but bloggers - both commercial and non-commercial bloggers - face the problem of fostering an active community of interest. OK, so you're one of those bloggers, like the rest of us. Big woo. Now get creative. Not by telling the OpenMoko mailing list how far you live from your parents' house, but by seeking more appropriate avenues. You want to get advice by asking people questions? Use an online answers service like Yahoo Answers or WikiAnswers, or use a more traditional offline alternative like a counsellor, a friend, or a relative. You want to make your blog more popular, so that you'll have a larger and more active audience? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+make+a+blog+popular Good luck, and please, please consider the relevance of your topic to the mailing list before you post. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum Sam ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting to a blog vs. this list (was: Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?)
what is that ruckus all about? once in a while brolin posts a message about his personal progress -- always with the same subject and hence easily to be filtered by the mail client for those unable to do it by themselves while reading the subject already. the most traffic and the real annoyance are messages complaining about the ot-ness of brolin's posts. there are but a few who complain, and probably also but a few who are interested -- the vast majority tolerates his mails. so, please all of you complaining: use your head or at least your computer and ignore his mails in future -- but spare us the griping. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: posting to a blog vs. this list (was: Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?)
2010/1/24 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de what is that ruckus all about? OK Arne, I live approximately 50.5 miles from my parents' house by road, slightly less as the crow flies. How about you? Maybe we should all discuss the distance we live from our parents' houses, if you're so sure this sort of information is of interest to the list. Perhaps I should tell the list about my sex life too, and which friends I speak to about which issues. Or alternatively perhaps we should encourage that sort of discussion to happen off-list, since it's off-topic. I'm not trying to silence Brolin, just asking him to consider his choice of forum more considerately. Doing so will likely be to his benefit in the long run, anyhow, since in an appropriate forum, his personal progress updates and requests for personal advice would be generally welcomed, not just tolerated. That's likely to lead to less tense interaction on both sides. Over and out, Sam ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
