[Lowfer] Raining on the parade

[Bill Ashlock]

Peter,

>Seems the issue is over the volume of
>non-tech list posts, not necessarily an attack on "humor." As one
>commented, it may have more to do with the signal to noise ratio ( my
>terms ) of the posts.

>I'll add that last week a near local asked how to be removed from the
>list. He too offered the high amount of non-tech posts; I didn't
>challenge his claim.

>I believe what's at stake here is the loss of some LowFERS over reasons
>such as these. That's an issue that shouldn't be casually dismissed nor
>taken lightly.

Your comments offer a different perspective on this problem than I had pr=
eviously considered and are much appreciated. One look at the new message=
s right now (10:30 EST) makes this problem particularly evident.  One pos=
sibility is the branching off of some of us to a separate reflector - the=
 one that was offered to us a few months ago when messages were getting b=
ogged down, days at a time. This offer is still there. I really don't fee=
l the group as a whole would benefit from this split since the main contr=
ibutors to what we all consider to be the 'good' side of this great media=
 of communication are also some of the main contributors of the more nega=
tive side. Possibly we could come up with a gentleman's agreement on the =
type of messages and the number of messages per day that would be accepta=
ble? Anything beyond this could be channeled to a secondary site. Anyway,=
 I'll be thinking more about this over the next few days and hope we can =
jointly come to some kind of a solution that works for all of us.

Thanks,
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