[governance] keep to the topic & list netiquett

[Veni Markovski]

David,
agree with you (will send you an off-list e-mail).
I'd like to state that being in a mailing list, is not like writing a book,
as someone pointed out some time ago. It's like getting involved in a
conversation - one writes, the other responds, a third interacts, and so on,
and so forth.
That is, if there are 10, 15 or 20 messages in a mailing list, on the same
subject, that's a live and vivid conversation. I don't think there's too
much heat here, although sometimes people lose their sense of humour, and
become very serious. I don't also think we should be that serious. We are
not having a heart surgery, where every milisecond counts, and where gesture
should be planned. We are a group of people, who share common interests
towards the Internet.
Thanks for the point about the native English speakers - that would be
helpful, if people keep that in mind, when thinking how to respond.
Your site looks good. You could check my blog at http://blog.veni.com - by
the way, some of the questions people ask here, have their responses there -
one just need to read :)

thanks, and have a good night!

On 5/15/07, David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Can there be some refining of what gets posted to the list. Personal
> insults (I'm probably somewhat guilty here too) and ongoing discussion on
> what funding Milton may or may not have had gets tedious. Frankly, having
> worked for an NGO doing fundraising, we should be pleased the funding was
> won as I can only imagine the topic isn't easy to convince funders to give
> funds for.
>
> If there's a point, please make it, but there's no need for repeated
> postings that add nothing.
>
> In addition, we native English speakers need to give some latitude to
> non-English speakers in their postings. If it doesn't sound right, maybe
> checking the intent first before ridiculing/attacking the author publicly
> could be courteous.
>
> As is obvious, there are a lot of points of view here. Some are right,
> some are wrong and some are just different. Let's work together.
>
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