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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:49:20 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... A request to the moderators...
Message-ID:  <1925624178.20050213084920@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <420EBC2C.9020206@makeworld.com>
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Chris writes:

> I respectfully ask the moderator of the list to kill these threads.
> People keep feeding this animal, and the animal remains.

By the way, which thread are you replying to again?

Threads live when people participate in them.  It takes at least two
people to maintain a thread.  There are many people posting to this
thread, so it must be fairly interesting to list participants, even if
it is not interesting to you.

Personally, I reply to threads, I don't start them.  If nobody else
posts on the topic, it dies.  I don't resurrect threads because I assume
that if nobody else replies to a thread, it must no longer be of
interest.  And as for threads that don't interest me, I simply ignore
them; I don't expect the rest of the list to stop posting to them for my
benefit.  Complaining about their off-topic character just adds to their
length, or creates additional off-topic threads filled with complaint.

-- 
Anthony




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