[kj] ) OT I love you to everyone...

[Mik]

There have been times in the past when rules have been tried to be enforced
taking off topic stuff off list and frankly it has always made the gathering
fairly dead and pointless. The nice thing about this is that on the whole we
are just a bunch of friends with something in common. I would suggest that
anyone who is receiving these mails on a mobile device should perhaps
consider setting up a separate email address for gathering stuff. Most of us
oldies that have been around here since the 90s have gotten quite used to it
and in fact enjoy quite a lot of the one line pointless posts which
sometimes can be quite amusing.

 

There, that's my opinion for what its worth. 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of PRAEst76
Sent: 25 February 2008 09:55
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] ) OT I love you to everyone...

 

On 25/02/2008, sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com> wrote: 

  Something I find does work for me is that if i can trust the message
titles to be in tune 

with the message, if people properly title their messages and change or add
to that title as

the subject/s of the messages change, then we can all feel confident in
deleting [on sight]

a thread of no interest. 

  For example, I personally don't care about the "btats remasters" so i
delete entire threads

of it [no offense to those who do care for btats remasters], and when a
title reflects a change 

in subject, that also helps me decide to read or delete.

 

  Also, and this is a long long shot, maybe if the board can be reformatted
to show individual postings in sequential order, would that help? Because
recently i've been getting lots of messages hours or even days after
someone's posted it, or messages are posted twice (no not just Mel's).


I think if people kept "chat" to a chat-room or IRC channel, and kept
obviously personal messages to personal email then the problem might go
somewhere to being solved.

I've pointed this out in the past but some mailing lists have infrequent
"guidelines" posted to remind folks. Contaning stuff alone the lines of
"keep quoting to a minimum", "change the subject when you change the topic",
"take personal business offlist", "learn to fucking type" etc.

I also think a lot of problems are caused by people using shitty email
software that doesn't thread properly. I always recommend Thunderbird, but
I've been using Gmail while I'm away from home and it's very impressive.

Hotmail is shite. If people didn't use Hotmail there would be a lot less
problems in the world. It encourages bad habits and doesn't thread emails. 

Some people here also need to ask themselves "Do I really need to respond to
EVERY email? Especially when I have absolutely nothing to add?".



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PRAEst76
http://www.escapism.co.uk/praest76 

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