Art,
A suggestion - do what you want here, if the chorus complaining gets too loud, then consider changing - but even then you don't necessarily have to, just that feedback is sometimes useful. The only situation where you absolutely must change is if Tony says to do it differently - then, because it is his list, do it. In the meantime, why not just talk about what you want. People here will either respond, ignore, or complain. I would be far more concerned if I were ignored. In the meantime, don't explain or debate what's right and wrong - I ran a BBS for 4 years, fairly large (pre-web days), one of my members used to say that one should not be easily offended, and also try not to offend - of course he would then go and flame someone because they pissed him off, but that is something else. Re: digital cameras - I have one and am constantly comparing its quality at 5 megapix to my Contax's scanned negatives @4000 DPI. Thus there is some immediate relevance here. Brad 9/03 18:22, "Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry if this additional public reply further irritates some. > > It is rather obvious that there are several philosophies about internet > lists at play here, and each have their valid points. > > Many active members of lists I have been on are strong believers in the > idea of an internet list being a community. The concept is that people > who participate tend to know one another and although the main intent is > to continue discussion in a narrow area, at times people may ask about > information outside of that realm. > > This model assumes people are multi-faceted resources with knowledge and > information, and sentiments beyond the narrow subject matter of an > internet list. It says that on some level people may respect the > opinion of people in more areas than the one the group mainly deals with. > > These side issues rarely overwhelm the main traffic, and are of little > consequence to those who are not interested. Heck, many "valid" > subjects at any one time will bore someone to tears. > > Others, and apparently you fit into this group, believe in strict > subject control of internet groups. It certainly, if it was truly > controllable, make for less traffic, very exacting subject matter that > was always "on track", probably less participants, less awareness of > the wider human elements of other list members, and a rather dry set of > discussions. > > Some people simply don't want to know anything about their car mechanic > other than if he does good repair, and how much he charges, and for > them, that's enough. Others may know how many kids he/she has, if > his/her mother has been ill recently, what his/her personal politics > might be, etc. Comes down to different styles, I guess. > > "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, > butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance > accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give > orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, > pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, > die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." > -- Lazarus Long, Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love" > > > Art > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> There are a number of semi-valid reasons that a posting of this nature >>> (regarding digital cameras) show up in this list. >> >> >> Yes, and they are only semi-valid. As I said, there are far better lists >> for digi-cams where the questioner will get a far wider range of reliable >> answers. >> >> There's enough off-topic noise on the list without adding to it. >> >> Peter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or > body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
