Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators

From: Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@rsn.hp.COM>

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000

In article <905637527.18653.0.nnrp-03.d4e4933e@news.demon.co.uk>,
Paul Walker <paul@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > I have never intended to post 400+ adverts without asking the game
> > moderators, but I've been accused of it more than once, no matter how
> > I phrase things. Perhaps this shows that I'm not very good at writing,
>
>So why did you say that you would volunteer to do so, if you never intended
>to? That's taking bad writing to the extreme. ;-)
>
>GL> Sure, I'll volunteer to post all 400+ from the PBM List. OK by you?
>
>  Paul
>
>--
>To email me, replace nospam with black-sun.
>
>"Being a territorial primate sure is fun!"
> -- Duane Maxwell on sci.skeptic
>

I've got to speak up here.  I have taken no sides in past disagreements
between GL and others, and usually ignore most posts not related to game
systems that I play.  But this time, I feel that is some serious
misinterpretation going on.  When I read GL's line
" Sure, I'll volunteer to post all 400+ from the PBM List. OK by you?"

I took it to be a sarcastic attempt to demonstrate why he thought the
suggestion he was responding to was a bad idea.  To clarify what I think he
meant by his statement:

"There are 400+ active PBM games.  If every one of them posted an
advertisment to the group, we would be flooded with messages to wade
through.  Therefore, it would be a bad idea for every active PBM group to
post separate advertisments right now."

Given his well-known and often stated distaste for excess newgroup messages,
it seems to me that anyone who seriously thought he might post those
messages is either new to our newsgroup, lacking in ability to detect
sarcasm, or willfully misinterpreting the post so they have an excuse to
attack GL based on previous disagreements.  If none of those apply to you
and you seriously thought he might make those posts, then just accept his
statement that he had no such intention and move on.  This topic has
probably exceeded 100 messages so far, with very little of positive value
coming from them.

- Patrick McGehearty
patrick@rsn.hp.com

References

Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators
paul@black-sun.removeme.demon.co.uk (Paul Walker)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators
paul@nospam.demon.co.uk (Paul Walker)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators
paul@black-sun.removeme.demon.co.uk (Paul Walker)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Newsgroup suggestions - for moderators
paul@nospam.demon.co.uk (Paul Walker)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000