[oclug] List etiquette and straw poll

[Mike Carignan]

Rod Giffin wrote:
> This is basically a low volume list.  It has an about average signal to
> noise ratio for LUG lists, maybe a little on the low side, but not too
> bad.  It could certainly be a lot worse.  
This is a valid point.

> The real solution here is for people to, well frankly, to grow up, and
> stop responding in childish ways to little issues like somebody not
> using capital letters and the like.
As one of the younger (one of the youngest?) OCLUG participants, I find 
it frustrating to see 'mature adults' acting in such foolish ways.  More 
noise is generated whining about the offtopic posts than the offtopic 
posts generate in the first place.  Refrain from replying to them and 
they will go away.  Besides, they only take a few seconds to manually 
filter with your brain.

By posting to this thread in the first place I'm being a hypocrite, but 
this foolishness has to stop.  Many people have suggested in the past 
how to avoid seeing offtopic posts and how to filter/ignore threads and 
contributors to the list.

The list appears to be fine as is, as suggested by the 
non-implementation of new lists or moderation when the issue has risen 
in the past.  Why does this issue never go away?  Am I missing something?

I bet I end up regretting writting this...

-- 
Mike Carignan <mcari051 at uottawa.ca>