[WWI] Gratuitous posting

[Douglas Anderson]

Be that as it may, and I do admit guilt here, this group, the wealth of knowledge stored with-in as well as the various discussions have been informative, helpful and have saved me on at least two occasions from making a serious blunder.
The queries asked have delivered debates, new information, resources, and inspiration. It is thanks to this group, and discussions held a couple of months ago that resulted in me purchasing the conversion kits to produce a two-seater Sopwith Camel as well as for the Sopwith Swallow.

While I do agree that there is a lot of noise, often times I reduce this if I see a  Re:so-and-so has added pictures etc. This generally means that these are more compliments. I just wish yahoo mail would show the first two lines of an e-mail as one could then see if this is simple banter or something worth reading. 


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Kendix <mkendix at hotmail.com>
To: World War One Modeling <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:07:55 PM
Subject: [WWI] Gratuitous posting

A group of listees and ex-listees was assembled in the lounge at the Park Inn during the UK Nationals last week.  The subject came up as to why some formerly, fairly prominent listees no longer subscribed to the list.

The main complaint was that a large proportion of postings was just junk comprising:

1. In-jokes and one liners that have little to do with the issue at hand.
2. An inordinate number of one-line postings saying something like "Great build".
3. An individual one-line response "Thank you" to each these "Great build" congratulations.

In essence, the problem is the high noise-to-information ratio on this list.

So, I emptied my mailbox about 2 hours ago and I sat down to find there are 13 new emails, 10 of which are from the Great Landoni, and I wonder what Jim has to say in 10 list emails that he cannot say in one? Jim seems like a great guy and is definitely a great modeler but all this "Stuff" is driving me nuts.  His is hardly the only example - Professor Looney being another poster who seems to revel in quantity rather than quality: anyone who sets up a web cam so we can observe him modeling is surely deserving of his moniker. 

Goodbye and good luck.

Michael



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