RE: Mailing list topic RE: [Epic] DUNE

From: Crocker, Cyril <ccrocker_at_...>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 08:11:11 -0400

I know I really shouldn't carry this on, but up until your post, for
July 2nd, there were 5 Conversion posts, 6 complaint posts, and 11 OT
posts. Fluff may be great, but please this is a little much.

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Cyril Crocker
ccrocker_at_...
Computer Technician
Proctor & Redferrn Ltd.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thane Morgan [mailto:thane_at_...]
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 8:15 PM
To: space-marine_at_...
Subject: Re: Mailing list topic RE: [Epic] DUNE


Again, I must point out that today there were 4 OT posts about dune's
timeline,
3 posts about making dune - epic conversions, and 6 about how they are
irritated
by dune. I'm irritated about the thunderhawk evac mission posts, whichg
as near
as i can tell have cycled through the same statements for 3 days. I just
delete
them, and you can do the same to our dune posts.

Thane

Andy Skinner wrote:

> > > Can we PLEASE stop talking about Dune. It's really starting to
get
> > > annoying.
> >
> > hey, from the length, enthusiasm and number of posts i think
> > people want to
> > talk about Dune. Plus there are discussions for Epic 40k versions,
so it's
> > on topic. In short, ignore the thread and leave us alone
>
> Well, that's an interesting question. We don't have an active list
> administrator to enforce such things, so how should we regulate this
> newsgroup (if at all)? Tyler suggests that we do it by popularity--if
> people want to talk about it, they can. I'm not sure that's how a
mailing
> list should run--that whatever people want to talk about is OK--rule
by
> popularity. People sign on to talk about epic. For some people, it
really
> is a pain to have many messages to sort through. (I can delete them
pretty
> easily, but some people may still be using less convenient email
programs.)
> Should people who subscribe to this list be able to expect that
persisting
> topics on the list will be about Epic? I certainly don't mind the
> occasional off topic post, but I don't think long-running threads are
> appropriate.
>
> I just checked through a lot of deleted messages. Most of them do
seem to
> have at least mention of how Dune would be represented using Epic,
which
> seems to me to be on topic. I'd suggest that, if there are parts of
the
> thread going on about the history and events overall, that those parts
> should be culled or brought back on topic. I wasn't sure how much,
because
> I've been deleting most of that topic (not all--I saw this one:)
myself.
>
> But I do think it is worth taking a look at some sort of topic policy,
even
> with no administrator. The parts of the Dune thread that are about
Epic
> versions may be on topic, but the other parts are not, in my opinion,
> justified for continued existence just because they are popular with
those
> posting. (Of course it is popular with those who are posting--that's
why
> they post. What about the many more of us who aren't, 'cause we're
not
> interested?)
>
> andy
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