[Ilugc] too much policing?
- From: mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx (Karanbir Singh)
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:10:49 +0100
On 04/27/2011 12:04 PM, Guruprasad wrote:
OP's email, I would say that 'policing' is an extremely harsh and
unfair word to use for people trying to remind/enlighten the ignorant
about the guidelines; 'reminder' could have been a better and a
neutral word.
A lot depends on how its said and where its said. Many of these 'efforts
to enlighten' are just really harsh dig's at people - and mostly dont
come with an option. eg: one thing that I've found to be productive is
to actually point out the issue:
'Your email client is not list friend, and is doing >insert problem
here<. This is considered bad because >add details<. If you dont have
the option to change your email behaviour, have you considered using a
web forum like >url to forum< instead ?
9 times out of 10 that gets a result. Either they move to a web forum
where this isnt that much of an issue ( sometimes ), or they move email
clients, change behavior or do whats needed to make sure that the issue
pointed out is fixed.
- KB
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