[Shotimes] Sad, really

[David P]

I have really enjoyed the SHOtimes mailing list over the last few years, but
off topic discussion has become too much of a problem for me. I don't mind a
little banter among friends, but this is a rather large group of friends, and
the banter is nowhere near "little". Too many people are double-sending
message, cross-posting to TechSHO, and holding long, drawn-out conversations
that don't pertain to SHOs or our relationships. I've never cared that someone
asks about different cars, but the conversations go on for weeks, and another
100 messages are added because of it. On every other list I subscribe to, the
same thing happens, except the responders talk off-list to keep from flooding
everyone else with unnecessary emails. I have not seen the list owner keeping
after this, so I assume it is considered acceptable now. Unfortunately, I no
longer have the interest to constantly keep after my filters (so few people
here put OT in the subject line). 40% of messages being OT on a daily basis is
unreal and unbearable for a list of this size. I am unsubscribing from
SHOtimes. Anyone that wants a good, SHO-related discussion can find me on
TechSHO as long as the OT cross-posting is kept to a minimum.

Which reminds me: TechSHO was opened to allow for SHO-only discussion. Why are
we getting OT cross-posting? I won't name any names, but I received FOUR of
the same OT message, from the same person. They posted twice (for insurance?),
and posted to both SHOtimes and TechSHO, so I got four emails. That is nuts.
Nuts seems to be the norm lately. I'm not a squirrel.



David P

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