[slinkelist] Re: Tower of Babel (fwd)

[slinke@linuxstuff.org]

I've already been battered to death by everyone on this topic.

I've apologized to just about everyone for even suggesting it in the first
place.

As I said the first time around, I wasn't forcing anyone to do anything, I
wasn't complaining, I was just suggesting an idea based on the traffic in
here for the past few years.

But thank you to everyone for the lessons in remedial mailing list
skimming.

Let's drop it.

Sheesh,

	JAmes

PS. No Shawn.  Mailing lists aren't supposed to be 60% noise.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:24:06 -0400
From: Bill Dickhaus <bdickhaus@mindspring.com>
To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Re: Tower of Babel

What amazes me is that anyone would complain in the first place. If there
were hundreds of off topic messages a day, I could would complain too. But
there are at most six or seven message A DAY average here, and most of them
are on topic. If someone can't be bothered to sort through only 30 to 40
messages a week, then they don't belong here.

-----Original Message-----
From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
Behalf Of shawn@sboyle.com
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 07:53
To: slinke@linuxstuff.org
Cc: slinkelist@nirvis.com
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Re: Tower of Babel


> I tend to not read [slinkelist] mail anymore unless the topic sounds
> relevant to me.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     JAmes

Isn't that how mailing lists, usenet, BBSs, etc., are supposed to work?

How many separate lists would you want to create? If you had a problem using
the Slink-e that was Linux related would you post it to the "check out this
cool new s-linke driven stuff" list, or create another list for Linux
problems? What about Macs? How about people working on a WinCE or Palm
solution...where should they post?

And why draw the line at the OS? You could create even more lists by
dividing among different types of issues [people who have setup problems and
people who are developing new solutions/programs].And what do you think the
odds are that a new person would post to the correct list?

Obviously the topics that get the most attention on the list are the ones
that many people are interested in. If you aren't...don't read them. The
solution is really as simple as that. I think the last thing that any of us
need is another list to subscribe to.

-Shawn

On Sun, 06 August 2000, JAmes Atwill wrote:

>
>
> I asked a while ago if perhaps the lists could be split forming a
> Microsoft-Problem centric list (help my com object doesn't work, cdj is
> broken, i can't get my serial port working, etc)  and a general list
> (check out this cool new s-linke driven stuff etc), and was flamed quite
> heavily by all the Microsoft users.
>
> Some sent threatening email to me personally calling me a racist idiot.
> One person mailed me saying something along the lines of "You're just a
> typical Linux loser who wants everything for themselves without thinking
> about anyone else"..
>
> I tend to not read [slinkelist] mail anymore unless the topic sounds
> relevant to me.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     JAmes
>
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