Hear! Hear! It's a shame that just too many people are a__l minded....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:47 PM Subject: [filmscanners] Re: PMA 2002 - Orlando Norman Unsworth wrote: > Give us a break, Art. It's a legitimate beef, newcomer or not, and > responding to perceived presumptuousness with pomposity isn't helpful. > > Now let's please drop it before it becomes another irrelevant OT thread. > > Norman > > If you really wished to stop this thread, you would/could/should have commented to me off-list. For that matter, Rodger could have done so to the people he found so annoying. I know you have been on this list for some time now, at least half a year or more. I signed up in late 1999, and have been a continual member since. All lists develop a certain type of "culture" and interactions among regulars occur which often include a certain amount of off topic discussion. It is, in part, what probably keeps people involved. Certainly off topic comments can become annoying when they get profuse, and Tony often steps in on those occasions. But a few humorous comments, even if not everyone gets the humor, shouldn't prove harmful. It is pretty easy to skip or delete messages of that nature if they aren't of interest. So, I'm not sure it is a "legitimate beef". Sure it might be in "violation" of the rules and charter of the list, but even the list owner violates those same rules. In part, occasional humorous threads keeps lists like these sane. In over two years, I can't count how many times have I read (and responded) to new people asking the same questions about scanners? If someone recently joining comes to such quick judgment about the value of a poster, then is it not fair to point out that those same people who he characterizes as contributing "prattle might be the same people who provide some of the enlightenment he is seeking? Yes, he certainly has every right to make comment and even complain, but then, I think deservingly so, I do as well. Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 19/02/2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
