[rhn-users] internet configuration

[Greg Forte]

Too many Michaels!  And it's so savagely ironic that the worst OT 
threads are always the ones about how much OT crap is floating around on 
a list (any list, not just this list).

> I can't see their direct email addresses

strange, I see the sender's address in the "From:" header on every list 
message I receive.  Granted, my mail client (and probably yours) doesn't 
seem to want to let me reply to them directly, but surely a few extra 
clicks aren't going to take that much time out of your busy OT-policing 
schedule.

> There comes a point when people get sick of receiving emails unrelated
> to the subscribed email list. It's a waste of time and resources ...

Yes, and the only thing more people-sickening and time/resource-wasting 
is when someone takes it upon themselves to point out, to the list, 
every time someone else's post is off-topic.  Besides which, it wasn't 
so much the fact that you said it as that you sent FOUR CONSECUTIVE 
MESSAGES saying the same thing to four different people.  You could've 
at least condensed them.  Nor was there any helpful content, not even a 
quick explanation as to why the posts were OT, or pointers to more 
appropriate lists.  Your complaint boils down to signal-to-noise ratio, 
but you were lowering it further!  ;-)  And, yes, I realize I'm doing it 
too, but you already opened this proverbial can o' worms.

I also found it annoying when I first subscribed to this list that there 
were so many seemingly OT questions.  But then I got over it.  And also 
realized that, hey, this may not be the MOST appropriate list for many 
of these questions, but this IS a redhat-related, fairly general list 
(it's become general, even if it wasn't intended as such), and there's a 
lot of redhat users on it that know a thing or two and can answer these 
questions - so why shouldn't we?  Is compartmentalization and taxonomic 
classification THAT much more important than exchanging info and 
answering questions?  Not in my mind.  Anyway, it's not like this is a 
Windows forum, or a motorcycle repair list.  At least they're CLOSE.

My $.02, adjusted for inflation

-g

Michael Dittbrenner wrote:
> Well i guess yours were off topic tellioing they were off  topic
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Mansour, Michael" <michael.mansour at hp.com>
> To: "Red Hat Network Users List" <rhn-users at redhat.com>
> Sent: 8/31/2006 8:43 PM
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] internet configuration
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> My posts were not off-topic, the posts of the users were.
> 
> There comes a point when people get sick of receiving emails unrelated
> to the subscribed email list. It's a waste of time and resources when
> other lists related to the queries in question exist and can better help
> the requestor.
> 
> This has been discussed before, and others have also voiced their
> concerns that people "just aren't getting it".
> 
> If you have a better way of informing people this list is for RHN-only
> 
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> 
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