[MLUG - DISCUSSION] RE: Off Topic, Neil's rant (was [MLUG] staying on topic)

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

How bout this.  If you feel someone is getting off topic, yell at them in
private, and move their thread to the discussion list.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:43 AM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: RE: [MLUG] staying on topic
> 
> 
> Why are we having this conversation yet again? It's one of 
> the few threads
> that really annoys me. For the most part the lists work fine. Lots of
> useful information and convo crosses the lists. Two years ago 
> the lists
> were shit boring and often all but dead. I remember weeks 
> without a single
> post and posting questions only to have them go unanswered as 
> nobody even
> bothered looking at the list more than once every couple weeks.
> 
> 
> ;):):-):):-):):-)8')
> Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/
> 
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Neil Bradshaw wrote:
> 
> > I make heavy use of deletion. The list has gone from 
> extremely useful to
> > extremely retarded in a period of about two years.
> > 
> > It's pointless to even complain about it. Everybody thinks 
> that they're
> > insightful, and that their shit mail is wanted and 
> appreciated. Everybody
> > has to voice their opinion because they feel that what they 
> have to say is
> > both right and important, and they assume that people will 
> care and take
> > them seriously.
> > 
> > Not all mail is bad mail. I would say that the MLUG mailing 
> list polluters
> > know who they are, but they probably don't and I'm not 
> playing the name
> > game. Some people just need a life.
> > 
> > One of my favorite pictures of all time is a picture of a 
> retarded kid in
> > the special olympics. On the picture, it says something to 
> the effect of
> > arguing on the Internet is like winning the special 
> olympics: even if you
> > will, you're still retarded.
> 
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