Re: [Leica] folks

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

I don't like to filter people.  Nobody here bothers me much anyway.  I just
do a mass delete on conversations that turn silly.  Makes it much more
pleasant.  Saves time in the long run.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <leica@davidmorton.org>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] folks


> 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.
>