starting new flamefest NOW

[Billy Crook]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:19, Adrian Griffis <adriang63 at gmail.com> wrote:
> David, surely this is the wrong place for this thread
>
> To all of you, I must say that I do not understand why this kind of
> contempt for those who have signed up for this list is so common and
> so well tolerated.  These off-topic posts are essentially spam.

No.  They are absolutely, explicitly spam.  I mark them as spam, and I
have David Nicol, Leo Mauler, and Oren Beck on an auto-delete list in
my mail client specifically because all they ever seem to contribute
is spam.  Unfortunatley, the second someone other than those three
stooges replies, it gets unblocked.

> They are not what people were signing up for when they joined this list.
> The fact that these topics are important is beside the point.  If
> these topics are important, surely they deserve their own mailing
> lists, and surely we should let our audience make their own decisions
> about whether or not to join those other lists.  Once an audience has
> made their choices about what topics to participate in, it is
> difficult for me to understand why so many on this list won't respect
> those decisions.  As much as many of you may see importance in some of
> these topics, is it really up to you to overrule the decisions that
> others have made and impose these discussions on them?
>
> Adrian

On a moderated list, this shit would never make it through.