Noise levels increasing and have become deafening

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Tue Oct 27 17:48:08 1998

On 27 Oct 98 at 21:15, Tony Duell wrote:

> > One of the big problems in my opinion is the fact that individuals will
> > consistently submit multiple posts...one day, I believe Hans had NINE
> > consecutive posts! Is this absolutely necessary? When the Velvet Rope was
>
> Sorry, but no. In many cases it makes life a lot easier to keep messages
> in threads, both for the person answering and for people reading it later.
>
 I agree. Although I am likely known for my overlong msgs. I think the thread
idea is a good cutom to continue. That way you can simply skip the msgs.
you have no interest in. I would suspect Hans comes from that old school.

> Otherwise you'd have to take all the messages you wanted to reply to,
> extract the appropriate parts, put them together, answer them and post.
> Trying to make any sense of the list after that would be impossible. We'd
> get posts with a comment on the TRS-80, a couple on the PDP11, etc all
> mixed up. No thanks!
>
  Many times there are 200 posts a day as the list expands. It would be
virtually impossible to read and relate all the ideas in one msg, each
multiplex coming from a different responder

> > system...I'm sorry. That simply is _not_ appropriate. Either is
> > gunsmithing, lathe building, snipers, or Star Trek theory.
>
 I basicly agree and am doing an 180 degree turn from my vehement opposition
to such , to the point were I wonder whether we might need a moderator.
 And of course that brings up the question of who moderates the moderator.

> Actully, lathe operation _could_ be on-topic. Restoration methods are on
> topic here (I hope), and that includes making parts for machines where
> the originals are unavailable. Or do you have a magic source of
> spindles/rollers/etc for every machine ever made :-). If so, where is it?
> The rest of us have to make these things...
>
 Heh, heh, heh, my own interests incline to lathe operations but an argument
could be made that it's off-topic.
 But I don't think anyone here wants such hard and fast rules that we don't
allow a bit of overrun. I do tend to agree with some of the criticism made of
the list as a general grab-bag of topics of interest to people interested in
old computers whether or not it has anything to do with classic computers.
 There are enough general topic forums out there that we don't need to turn
this into another. The old Fido groups required a moderator just because of the
anarchic style generated by this new medium. Many were overwhelmed by
material not related to the theme that was posted irregardless and failed
because of that. Many comp.sys newsgroups are now simply the preserve of
spammers who don't realize nobody reads it anymore. That should be the strength
of a mailing list. To reserve the right of posting to those who obey its rules.

> [Sig deleted]

Often thought about these sigs. Many Fido groups only allowed 3 lines for a
sig. And people would spend a lot of time working out the aasci form.
 It's a pretty esoteric one in any case and 16 lines !

> And I suppose long .sigs are not noise???
>
> -tony
>
ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Tue Oct 27 1998 - 17:48:08 GMT