1. Vendors. I have appreciated any post I see from Tony Gravagno, Doug Averch, Jeff Fitzgerald, Dawn Wolthius, Susan Joslyn, IBM people promoting U2 features or classes (yes, same standard applies to IBM), and any other vendor/consultant in our market.
B. The moderator's job is not pleasant and I wholeheartedly thank Chuck B for his effort. Clif before him. III. I like [AD] on the subject line if that's the primary purpose of the post. I do not like the <ad></ad>, <joke></joke> pseudo-xml & -html silliness in the middle of posts. If [AD] is missing from the subject line and I think it should have been there, I raise my substantial eyebrows a notch. It flavours how I receive said ad. Blatant repeat offenders can be reprimanded, but they've already dug their own pit. Vendors responding to questions about their products is not an [AD]. Vendors taking the opportunity of a general question to tout how their product or service will solve the problem is welcome, but should probably be referred to as [AD]. I wish we had more [AD] postings. d. u2-users is not only for just deep diving technical questions, but for any _serious_ discussion of any topic related to our niche of the IT industry. (Including this meta-discussion.) Dawn says she doesn't feel free to post, but I can't think of anything that she would post that I would not welcome. (5) U2-community was originally created to weed out the non-serious degeneration of threads into Monty Python gags, etymologies (I plead guilty), politics, etc.. If you want water-cooler conversation go to u2-community. Maybe we should have named it "u2-WaterCooler". The Noise:Signal ratio before the split was intolerable to many and I truly believe we lost list members because of it. I think we waited too long to split because the list members who were with or enjoyed the frivolity were the wrong people to ask. We really needed to ask the people who DIDN'T join. I think we do need to continue to separate out mere frivolity; Bah! Humbug! Six. Lighten up. With malice toward none, with charity for all (Lincoln), Chuck S ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
