::fibreculture:: Re: posting guidelines

[Christina McPhee]

as a State-side silent subscriber, I 'm with you on this.
christina


On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:21 PM, Stephen Loosley wrote:

> Hello fibreculture folk
>
> (With respect and goodwill towards all fibreculture people)
>
> Having been a member for four years or so, in my opinion
> the fibreculture list has been a failure for much of this time.
>
> Please note, I say this with disappointment, but, because of
> the lack of emails. It's probably the slowest list of the many
> lists I for one subscribe to, and I believe that's a real shame.
>
> Today Ingrid posts the list "posting guidelines" which advise
> "consider replying to the original sender off-list" and further,
> "The following kinds of posts are not suited for :fibreculture:
> Announcements, Flames, Unannotated URLs, Fiction, Long
> academic papers, Text-art, One-liners (unless *really* funny
> or insightful) and Promotional material" and also, "we rely on
> subscribers following these guidelines to keep the list dynamic
> and active .."
>
> Seems to me that "dynamic and active" is exactly what this list
> isn't. So, why urge people to reply off-list? Why urge members
> not to send material such as that listed above?  Indeed, some of
> the most insightfull and interesting posts on other mail lists have
> been exactly those items claimed as 'not suitable' for fibreculture.
>
> So, being a bad-boy, and wanting our fibreculture to be remotely
> relevant to anything, I say, post away .. all your announcements
> and fiction, all your one-liners and academic papers. Indeed one
> hopes that I get flamed at nuclear temperatures for this post. At
> least it will provide some, "proof of life" for our fibreculture list.
>
> Cheers, people
> Stephen Loosley
> Melburbs, Aussie.
>
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