Hi :) Your position is a good one and doesn't need defending. If we all agreed about everything all the time it would be very dull. Lets hope we never get there!
Usually we work towards a win-win so that everyone is happy but in this case we have been forced into a compromise which no-one has won and some points of view have lost out more than others. The fact is (imo) that you are right and other people (incl me) are trying to defend a less-than-perfect system. There is a Nabble thread about this and if you have a good idea of how to implement a better answer then it would be great to add to that thread. That seems to be the blocker at the moment, the implementation is not easy. Other mailing lists have better answers but the mailing-list system we are using is different. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Stan Goodman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 16 August, 2011 16:56:39 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] unsubscribe On Tuesday 16 August 2011 12:01:37 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:58:08 +0300 > Stan Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Stan, > > > Why is it necessary for one of us to hand-massage individual cases? > > Because there's a percentage of people that expect everything to be > done for them. They're called lazy people. Given that there are lazy people, and also even many more people who simply don't know the drill and don't know exactly what to scrutinize to make sure that they're not missing any bets, the rational way for the group to cope with such evidence of the human condition would be to made every effort ONCE to minimize the frequency with which it will be bothered by the need for individual explanations. An irrational response might be to dismiss them all as just lazy people who need to be taught a lesson, even though teaching this lesson several times a week also bothers to a slight degree each and every reader of the list, not to mention the Good Samaritans who send out these messages two or three times a week. The aggregate bother over, say, a year is not at all trivial, and it is all sooo unnecessary, > > Does it satisfy a hidden social need to do so? > > Why are you accusing those that do assist of having an ulterior > motive? If you will read that sentence again, you may notice that it is not an accusation, but one in a series of hypothericals, framed as questions, meant to display the absence of any logical explanation for the unusual way unsubscription is being handled. As you have perceived it as an acccusation, it seems to have struck a nerve. For the record however, I don't care how you get your jollies; What you do with your surplus time is certainly your own business. I am sure I've said everything I have to say on this subject, several times. I don't have any interest in defending my position further. It's been educational, which is something, and it's shown me an especially comical human foible that I must somehow have missed earlier. As you were. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
