Vince, apparently I am one of the offenders you refer to. So far everyone here as been gracious and helpful to me a real "Green Horn".
I am sorry that my feelings have offended you.
Being new I even wrote a note asking a "Mod" to write to me. Had no response, so had no guidelines on which to go on.
We each have our own ideas, but I for one am going to learn as much as I can, repeated over and over.
These kind folks give freely of their time to make my learning better.
Calle
Well these kind of things he is citing occur all over the web. I wouldn't be overly concerned that this place is any different. Actually it occurs here a lot less than other places. There's a photography user group site that I paid to join and over there "thread hijacking" occurs quite often. And that's a paid site. This place is free. It's sad to see when someone can't take something but in the end I likely think there's some other triggers at play.
Sincerely, Judith
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> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:29:08 -0700
> From: pawlowski@ultrasw.com
> To: williams_judith@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: dropping papercreters list
>
> Hi Judith,
>
> Glad you cared. However, it is too late, it was not a threat. I would
> not make an "idle threat", to me, its just another lie, like
> saber-rattling politicians make all the time. I just dropped my
> delivery of the digest, changing to getting only special notices. I may
> re-enlist when the quality improves.
>
> It wasn't only the political stuff. The group is extremely cliquish and
> chatty, there are too many re-posts of previous messages with only a
> "ditto" response, too many people repost entire digests, the list is
> full of off-topic posts, posts don't respect basic netiquette, subject
> lines don't match the content, and lastly, illiterate people do not
> check their spelling and grammar, and in general, the quality of posts
> that are actually about papercrete has dropped hugely to the point of
> not having any useful content.
>
> Please feel free to forward this to the list, or send me any important
> posts with content or about Southwest papercrete happenings, and
> certainly let me know if the list gets better. Personally, I would
> rather have fewer posts than have to scroll through an entire daily
> digest just to find that there was nothing said, but "I agree with
> xxx". Maybe it is time for a "papercrete community" list, sort of like
> I presented at the conference - online, at least. It could be a more
> free-wheeling list, although my past experience with other alternative
> living lists is that the paranoids scare everyone else away after a time.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vince
>
> JUDITH WILLIAMS wrote:
> > I hope your threat to unsubscribe from the group was an idle one. I
> > always look forward to seeing what you have to contribute.
> >
> >> >
> > Sincerely, Judith
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
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