27 Oct
2020
27 Oct
'20
6:48 p.m.
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(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>> 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(a)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