[sllug-members]: When did SLLUG turn into SlashDot?

[Mike Bourgeous]

I have subscribed to a few high volume lists in the past.  At present I use 
Hotmail and Gmail almost exclusively because it's much easier for me to have 
web access to my e-mail (I'm away from my desk a lot), and I don't want to 
run a webmail server at home.  It wasn't the volume of mail that I found 
alarming, but how several messages were derisive in nature, several more 
users stepped in to try to defend the derided, and things seemed to get out 
of control rather quickly.

Mike

>From: Knight Walker <kwalker at kobran.org>
>Reply-To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions <sllug-members at sllug.org>
>To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions <sllug-members at sllug.org>
>Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: When did SLLUG turn into SlashDot?
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:35:01 -0700
>
>Yes, this will happen again.  This happens once in a while, usually when
>enough new users have signed up for the list before realizing that there
>are people with differing opinions who are just as vociferous and
>self-righteous as they are.  And all I can say is that if 25 messages in
>"such a short timespan" is a lot, you must not be in (any?) active
>mailing lists.  I'm on some that post 100-300 per day.  It's pretty
>easy, if you have a decent mail reader program to just highlight the
>thread and hit the delete (or equivalent) key.
>
>-KW

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