Re: CS>hear hear! seconded...

[marmar845]

I wasn't offended at all by your posts about your computer problems, Dee.  I simply skimmed through them and then hit the delete button as they weren't pertinent for me.  I also wasn't offended by Kurt's posts either (although I think they're mostly paranoid -- sorry Kurt).  I think it's normal for any group of people to drift into conversations other than on-topic, if said topic happens to be stagnant at the moment.  Be pretty hard to legislate against human nature.  Also, that's what God made the *delete* button for (uh-oh -- does that make this a religious post? LOL)  As long as the off-topic posts are related to health issues (well, even the computer post was related to health -- your mental health Dee, right?) I don't think they're out of line as long as they don't go on forever.  As far as new people are concerned, well if I was recommending this list to someone, I would probably forewarn them that off-topic stuff does come up once in awhile.  Perhaps that could be mentioned in a *welcome letter* to new members, Mike, if such a thing exists.  I think that only a complete skeptic (to CS), or an absolute newbie to the concept of internet chat groups (does such a person exist?) would blow off an internet group because of off-topic or odd posts.  And I think it's sad that intelligent people who are members of this list would be willing to leave because the list isn't performing in the way that they'd like.  Personally, I'm willing to ignore a lot of *crap* in order to read the occasional valuable nugget of information that I'd otherwise not have access to.  JMHO, of course.

MA     

 

 

-------------- Original message from dee <d...@deetroy.org>: --------------

> therefore I apologize to all whom it has
> offended, for posting about my computer problems. dee