atw: Re: Enough of this OT stuff!
- From: "Christine Kent" <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:00:04 +0100
For digest-ers, your personal solution is simple. Go from digest to
individual mails, then set Outlook to sort all ATW emails into a single
folder. Then you can read them daily, correctly formatted, and delete all
those that offend. Ie, take responsibility for yourselves.
To relative newcomers to this group, this is a family as well as a
professional group. The industry is small and the same people are endlessly
recycled, so we meet up on projects quite often. Whilst I do not approve of
the way some behave from time to time, it sorts itself out. We have been
sorting ourselves out for far too many years for comfort, and do not need
those who never add value to the group, never ask or answer questions, never
contribute to discussions, or in any other positive way contribute anything
to the group, to tell us what to do.
Become an active member of the group, adding value, and maybe then you have
the right to be critical.
And really, that is what this groups needs. We need new contributors (other
than newbies looking to enter an already overcrowded profession). We need
intelligent conversation on changes to the industry, on the impacts of
technology and outsourcing, and many other topics. All those critical of
the stagnant nature of the group currently, please feel free to stir it up
with intelligent conversation rather than criticism.
And for those who have never experienced really bad groups, you have no idea
how vicious editors can be!
Christine
-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lee O'Mahoney
Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013 9:06 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Enough of this OT stuff!
At 03:09 PM 23/05/2013, Christine Kent wrote:
>You know, I will just never understand why some people find it so hard
>to hit the delete button.
For people receiving individual emails, it's possible to hit delete.
For people receiving the digest, because of its lack of formatting, it's not
possible to delete a single post. People have to wade through hundreds of
lines of text to move from one post to another.
The last digest I received is 111 pages long when copied into Word.
Like others, I'd welcome civility on this group. I'm a member of many online
groups. I have only experienced people resorting to personal attacks, as has
happened here, in one other group. That was a group of mostly macho people,
from all walks of life, not people from a certain profession.
Regards,
Lee
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