Personally, I rather enjoy thread drift, and no doubt am responsible for my
share of it. But I keep the cursor on the delete button on MacMail, and it
doesn't take long to determine if I want to read what's been written. For
example, I seldom spend much time on threads about battery issues in flashes,
though I understand it's an important issue to some people.
--Bob
On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I agree even though I am probably one of the worst perpetrators of such.
> If I see a thread with many posts I generally read the first to
> discover the real subject and then jump ahead here and there to see how
> far the drift is and if I'm interested in following the drift.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 7/12/2012 2:17 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> One of my pet peeves with mailing lists is when people who want to post a
>> picture or whatever do not start a new thread but simply reply to a message
>> on an existing thread. This has long been an annoyance on the Olympus list,
>> but now I am beginning to see it more and more on the Leica list as well
>> (perhaps not surprising, given the overlap between the two lists).
>>
>> I am in the habit of almost automatically deleting any thread with a subject
>> line that does not interest me, and also any thread with more than 20-30
>> messages, since that usually indicates heavy thread drift or a food fight,
>> neither of which interest me. If someone has posted a masterpiece in the
>> middle of such threads, I simply will not see it.
>>
>> So, please, if you have something NEW to share, create a new thread!
--
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