4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
6:12 p.m.
Mike, I like you, but your method of replying to messages leaves a LOT to
be desired. You intermingled my message with your replies. Use some
software with a quoting feature, eh?
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, M H Stein wrote:
So, even if it were true, which in my experience it
isn't, does this
mean that we have to be equally rude and condescending?
I don't consider my response either rude or condescending.
Well, actually I correspond with several people who
used to be on this
list and have/are valuable resources who have unsubscribed because of
the amount of irrelevant garbage and the "attitude" on this list; I
doubt that the occasional PC-related topic would have bothered them. I
Oh really? You just said they left because of "the amount of irrelevant
garbage". Do you really think they would also tolerate off-topic lame PC
help messages? How do you presume to speak for them anyway?
So what? I ask and get asked lots of questions of/by
people, and I've never
said or heard "Don't bother me, look it up on Google!"
Hey, that's your right, being it's your private correspondance. This is a
public mailing list. If some satan worshippers wanted to use your local
public park for animal sacrifices and blood orgies, would you also be OK
with that? Aside from the fact that it's their park too (as logn as they
pay their taxes), it's still not very cool, is it?
As to the "character" of this list, it
appears to be a place where you
can talk and ask questions for days about just about anything, cars,
guns, what have you, ignoring pleas to "finally get off this OT topic,"
as long as it's not about what many if not most of us actually have
sitting in front of us, a PC-compatible, maybe even (God forbid) running
a Microsoft product. Are you really afraid that if we do answer the
occasional OT but computer-related question that we'll suddenly be
deluged?
I have as much problem with any other off-topic messages as I do with PC
related questions. PC related questions are especially obnoxious since,
as I've already explained but which seems to be ignored no matter how
many times I bring it up (maybe this time will be different), there are
already thousands of other websites, forums, newsgroups, not to mention
books and magazines in current print, where one can get help with their PC
related problems. There are only a handful of areas where one can discuss
vintage computing. Is it OK with you if we keep this mailing list from
becoming another PC support group?
Can't we (at least some of us) be a little nicer,
especially to
"outsiders" who may not be aware of our anal attitudes, or would that
totally destroy the "character" of this list?
Jim is not a newcomer. He's been subscribed for half a year now (as far
as I can tell) and he's been around during the previous two flame fests
where we covered this issue ad nauseum/absurdum. He cannot claim
ignorance, and niether should you. Read the FAQ:
http://www.classiccmp.org/oldfaq.txt
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