I've
finally had my fill of the general grumpiness and bluntly
worded interactions on this list.
Sorry to hear that.
What linimon@ said.
I fight against such things on other lists I am on,
but some weeks I
also wonder why.
I just now noticed something.
I've noticed people mentioning instances of, shall we say, "excessive
bluntness" occasionally here. But, significantly more often than not,
I never saw the, er, "excessively blunt" message itself.
Usually, as in this case, this turns out to be because (for unrelated
reasons) I go to some lengths to avoid seeing anything that was sent
through gmail, even laundered through mailing lists. (This loses me
some mail I regret losing, but, so far, not enough to make me take out
those blocks. And note that it's not people using gmail addresses I
block, but mail actually sent through gmail.)
I'm wondering if perhaps this correlation works well enough for other
people that dropping list mail sent through gmail could help preserve
the S/N ratio of the list for those who find it low enough that
dropping off the list entirely is looking attractive.
(_Why_ that test correlates that way for me is an interesting, but only
tangentially related, question.)
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