Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, Well said. I get a nauseous feeling when Mr A asks the community to 'filter out' Mr B. It is like saying "he should not exist, I wipe him out of my world, I suggest you all wipe him out as well". Each of us, with our own mail client, may do whatever he/she wants in order to manage this gigantic list download, it is not necessary to suggest a collectivisation of such filtering rules, which is like calling for a virtual death or exile sentence. No bouncer here, thank you. Furthermore, even the most irritating posters are sometimes capable of giving useful advice. When you add the fact that you should filter out people who answer to filtered out people in order to protect your precious eyes against the untouchable, you realise that this system is not practical on a list such as the LUG. I favour efficient communication behaviours allowing fast processing of posts, based on respect for thread structure, careful management of subject line evolution and careful pasting of relevent snippets below the answer as to enable the usage of the preview features of modern mail clients. This works more efficiently than personal filters, if the objective is to increase the efficiency of the LUG time... Another sick behaviour is to forward back to the whole LUG a mail that was sent through private channels: it seems to me an unfortunate experience of the kind has just happened to one of our more provocative luggers, who had privately nominated his suggestions for the Gang of 5 Award of 1999... Alan On lundi 10 mai 1999 19:42, Mark Rabiner [SMTP:mrabiner@concentric.net] wrote: > I find any discussion of the filtering of human beings beyond simple bad > taste and incivility. There is no precedent for it in our modern > culture. New etiquette books will have to be written.