On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:19, Adrian Griffis adriang63@gmail.com wrote:
David, surely this is the wrong place for this thread
To all of you, I must say that I do not understand why this kind of contempt for those who have signed up for this list is so common and so well tolerated. These off-topic posts are essentially spam.
No. They are absolutely, explicitly spam. I mark them as spam, and I have David Nicol, Leo Mauler, and Oren Beck on an auto-delete list in my mail client specifically because all they ever seem to contribute is spam. Unfortunatley, the second someone other than those three stooges replies, it gets unblocked.
They are not what people were signing up for when they joined this list. The fact that these topics are important is beside the point. If these topics are important, surely they deserve their own mailing lists, and surely we should let our audience make their own decisions about whether or not to join those other lists. Once an audience has made their choices about what topics to participate in, it is difficult for me to understand why so many on this list won't respect those decisions. As much as many of you may see importance in some of these topics, is it really up to you to overrule the decisions that others have made and impose these discussions on them?
Adrian
On a moderated list, this shit would never make it through.