[Gllug] Regarding priracy (sic)

[Nix]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Tethys moaned:
> Personally, I think the list is richer for his presence, and I'm glad
> he's here. Are there really people that object to him so much they're
> prepared to unsubscribe? Seems a little extreme and childish to me.
> After all, this month, his postings have accounted for a mere 4% of
> the traffic on the list. Is that really worth throwing away the other
> 96% for that?

At most, killfile subthreads headed by him.

(But that would also be foolish, as most of those threads aren't flamy.)

> FWIW, the only people I'm aware of that have recently unsubscribed
> have done so because of the abysmally low S:N ratio[1]. To which I'm
> contributing here, of course! But I don't know what the solution to
> that is... perhaps ban anyone but Nix from posting :-)

*splorf*

> [1] Most lists go through phases of having off topic discussions,
>     and I think this one's just happens to be in the middle of
> 	a particulaly prolonged one. Hopefully it'll return to its
> 	previously high levels soon.

You could always subscribe to rec.arts.sf.written or
news.admin.net-abuse.{news,email} and see what *real* off-topic threads
are like...

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