Against my better judgment, I'll join in.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 13:02 (-0500), 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...)
+1 to Janek.
And yes, I've worked in an office environment. And, having done so, I feel confident in saying that a mailing list is not an office environment. But even in a mailing list, a little chit-chat is one thing, but some days there is a LOT of chit-chat. For example, on September 15 I received 50 emails from users@trinitydesktop.org. On September 16 there were 61. If I recall correctly, much of that was chit chat. Perhaps these are two of the days Janek was referring to.
The question you want to ask yourself is this: am I so desperate for chit-chat that I am OK with alienating people who are on this list for issues directly related to using TDE?
Cheers. Jim