Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: [snip] "I have had him blocked since a year or two ago when he was here doing the same thing. But I see the LUG-at-large responses." [snip] I think it's much MUCH better that people who find themselves upset or annoyed by a particular individual or individuals, learn how to set-up and use filters (or rules, or kill-files or whatever your email set-up calls them). Yes it's a pain to have to do this, but it's much better for each of us to filter the LUG with our own settings, and to our own personal tastes (should we decide this is necessary), than for the LUG to descend collectively into the moral and ethical morass that would be engendered by throwing people off the list for expressing opinions that some don't like. The whole time I've been on the LUG (which is a few years now, on and off, though I sometimes go for months without reading it), I've only ever filtered out about four or five people. I always delete the rules at the beginning of each year, too, because I think it's only right to give people another chance. Some folk get themselves back in the filter list year after year, which is a shame, but I'll still delete that filter on January 1st 2002 (God willing), just in case. I'm sure some filter me too, and I have to admit I don't mind at all, that's their perogative. I do sometimes wonder if folk in my filter list reply to my posts and question why I never respond, but I don't lose sleep over it. It's just electrons hitting phosphor on the subject of metal, glass and long strips of boiled-up cow. It's not *important* in the great scheme of things. :-) - -- David Morton dmorton@journalist.co.uk "The more opinions you have, the less you see." -- Wim Wenders.