-- Aloha,Sherwood
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 07:41:56 -0400 From: Rich Brennan <brennan@merk.com> To: Sherwood Pekelo <spekelo@iav.com> Subject: Re: irc
>My pardon oh great and noble sage... seeing as the ones who voluminously >post seem to be the most helpful...*shrug* I apologize, though not >profusely...you see if we can get others more assistance in more forums to >me that IS appropriate.
Both you and the other guy post nearly content-free blather most of the time, so quantity is most definitely != quality. If you generally added decent content instead of nonsense, I wouldn't have had to send my flame.
If you like or need to see yourself "in print", post to USENET, not to mailing lists.
> Do me and yourself a flavor and put me in your >kill file, that way I won't be of a bother to you again...
Fucking internet newbies are all alike. Kill files are a USENET phenomenon. A mailing list is most definitely not supposed to be like USENET. It's supposed to be low volume and HIGH SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO.
>> You and that Messinger get the Stephen King Voluminous >> Output Award for following up on most every post on the list. > >LOL, hmm, dunno about that, but because I try to be helpful I have a >really good relation with quite a few people within Livingston. Hell, >with their support what's not to like about them.
You and Messinger like to chatter, and your postings show it. Superfluous replies, opinions, opinions, opinions. A lot of smoke, but no fire.
>> Try to stay on topic, keep the bullshit opinions to yourself, and >> use email when your posting isn't of general interest? > >And the topic was #livingston on efnet as another source of information... >something wrong with that?
You were sending to the entire list when an email was appropriate. Unfortunately the list is set up to send a "reply" to the entire list. It should be set up so that replies go to a single person. That way you'd have to do extra work to reply to the list; I'll bet half the "helpful" posts would disappear if someone actually had to mung an email header to get their reply delivered to the list.