Anno domini 2020 Wed, 28 Oct 16:03:49 -0500 J Leslie Turriff scripsit:
On 2020-10-27 13:25:36 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users wrote:
On Tuesday 27 October 2020, Michael via tde-users wrote:
On Tuesday 27 October 2020 11:28:09 am The Joneses via tde-users wrote:
Quoting Janek Stolarek jwstolarek@gmail.com:
What is your opinion?
I think the amount of spam is negligible compared to the amount of off-topic emails sent by regular list participants. I have been seriously considering unsubscribing from trinity-users because some people seem to treat the list as their private chat to discuss absolutely anything that comes to their mind. I wish the moderators were more strict and deleted all the TDE-unrelated chit-chat.
Janek
+1
Jonesy
-1
Michael (You have me curious at this point, have neither of you worked in an office environment before? Random chit-chat is de facto / de jur for any group of people who have known each other for years / decades. This is also the “users” list, not the “developers” list, e.g. users helping users, so this list will always have random chit-chat as that is the nature of “users” lists. Raging against the laws of the universe is all well and good, but seems kinda pointless...) ____________________________________________________
I agree with Micheal but I suggest creating an off topic mail list. If it hasn't already been done.
Kate
I doubt that such a list would help. The reason that topics degenerate into OT stuff is that participants' attention gets distracted from the original purpose of the thread, so they are unlikely to say to themselves 'am I still on topic?' If we were all that disciplined OT posts wouldn't happen in the first place.
Leslie
What's the problem with that? When the world was younger there was even the "nazi-counter" - or, how many postings does it take till somebody makes a reference to some ugly figures from recent history. Maybe because politics tend to repeat history this call for polital correctness is needed?
Nik