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(Fwd) Re: [OM] OT : Off Topic Posts are drowning out content.

Subject: (Fwd) Re: [OM] OT : Off Topic Posts are drowning out content.
From: "Giles" <cnocbui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:48:15 +0000
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From: "Michael Humberston" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To:
olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:15:18 +0100
 Subject: Re: [OM] OT : Off Topic Posts are drowning out content. 
Reply-to: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Off-topic posting is certainly not necessary to give a list a sense 
of community.  I currently sub*scribe to and have in the past run to a
number of mailing lists about specific topics and the all (except for this
one) have managed to remain pretty much on-topic.  And they all manage to
have quite a sense of community.

Off-topic posts can actually be quite divisive as they drive away 
from the list people who might often have a good contribution to make.

Mike

On 28 Jul 2001, at 11:46, Tom Scales wrote:

> But it makes is gives it a sense of family and community that I, for
> one, find great about this list.
> 
> Tom
> 
> > ... and preferably don't even post it to this list at all!  This is
> > supposed to be a list about OM photographic equipment and its use,
> > not a list about fish, cars, Fedex and UPS, etc.  Using it as a
> > general purpose chat room really does detract greatly from its
> > usefulness.



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