Re: Don't mean to offend, but...

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>Don't mean to offend, but there are TOO many off-topic posts in this =
>group! I spent some days without email and got 800 messages from CONLANG =
>at once. I was surprised at how many of them had nothing to do at all =
>with conlanging. I understand that you people are friends and want to =
>chat like friends do, but it's very tiresome to skip dozens of =
>small-talk to get to that single email that interests you.
I hope you don't get offended by what I have to say. The OT threads are
insightful to the people on the list. This list is not just a catalogue of
conlang information, it's also about the people. The group cannot, and
should not have to tailor their discussions to meet that of the one who
believes that some OT threads are irrelevant. It's a social thing, and
people being social animals will want to get to know one another, or chat
with others. It's human nature... i don't know of any informal group where
things are 100% on topic ALL of the time.

 Here's what I do, i set my email client to filter all Conlang messages
into a folder. I know many can, and would suggest downloading one
yourself. This way i can group threads according to subject and mass
delete the ones that don't interest me (lately it's been most, as i've
just been in the "blahs"). If this list is "too off topic" for you, i'd
suggest either unsubscribing, or find a way to make it easier to filter
out the off topic posts.
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>You will probably say "just delete it". Well, I don't mind to do so now =
>and then, but this last days I guess there were more off-topic than =
>on-topic postings. Hard to learn anything about conlaning this way.
If it's just been "these last days", then the list is not fully off topic.
We have our moments, and all lists have periods of being off topic, or
simple silence. I don't look at all threads, so i can't say, but did you
perhaps think of asking conlang related questions yourself?

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