Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, May 04, 2006 @ 8:38 PM, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

>On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:03 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:

>> These "rules" as they are called were in place long before you (or I,
>> and I have been a member since around 1998-99) joined the list and have
>> served to help cut down on some of the posts to the list. Since this
>> list has thousands of people subscribed to it and can generate over 200
>> emails a day every little bit helps. And yes there are still people on
>> this list that are -forced- to use metered dial-up so <snipping> out
>> parts you are not answering and -not- using html does help their online
>> bill from getting overly large. So, you have two choices - either accept
>> the ways of this list or leave the list and start your own with your own
>> rules.

>The reality is that there's a core community of regular members and a far 
>larger group of occasional and short-term members.

>You can't really expect 
>those in that larger group to do much beyond follow the rules of common 
>sense.

Say what?  When I joined, the message I got welcoming me to the group
directed me to the list of rules for the group.  Not sure how one gets from
there to a rule of just following common sense.

>And then there are those who get trapped in the group and can't figure out
>how 
>to escape.

Trapped?  Like one day they woke up and they were suddenly getting email
from this user group and had no idea why?

>   Since almost all of them are very short-term or even one-time 
>visitors, they certainly won't know the rules, let alone know what it takes

>to unsubscribe.  As they struggle to escape the web, they generate a flurry

>of posts, many of the form "you should know that".  And like a spider web, 
>this trap usually has visitors.

Wow, I hadn't realized how insidious this list was before now.

>Paul

Greg Wallace