[Air-l] Air-list

[Christian Nelson]

I appreciate your sense of commitment to the group, Jeremy, but I'm not 
clear on why that would compel you or anyone else on the list to feel 
they had to read every single message on the list. It can't be because 
of a fear of what a post might physically do to the list, so I assume 
its because of a fear of how it might impact the community. How could 
posts like Reid's, as obnoxious as they are, impact a community in a 
negative way? Do you suspect that others also can't help themselves 
reading the messages, then becoming frustrated with them, and then 
dropping from the list? This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm truly 
interested. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone about this.
--Christian

On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:00 PM, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:

> actually yes, some people feel a responsibility to aoir, their
> colleagues and the larger effort they share.  some of these people
> are acquaintances, some are colleagues, and some are friends, many
> we've met f2f, some not. personally, i appreciate all the efforts
> that so many people put into this list and this organization, and i
> tend to feel responsible (though less so now that i am not directly
> responsible) to it and the community involved.  i 'have to' do some
> things for aoir, and i suppose i always will.
> On Sep 13, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Christian Nelson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:33 PM, radhika gajjala wrote:
>>
>>> its so sad that people (and I include myself here) have to waste
>>> their
>>> time and energy arguing over all this when there is so much else
>>> to be
>>> done - both onine and offline.
>>
>> "Have to"? That's the feeling I'm interested in. Does everyone feel
>> that? They can't help but read everything posted to the list? Where
>> does that come from? Is it, as I earlier suggested, due to a holdover
>> of f2f habits, or something else?
>> --Christian
>>
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