The Logic Off Topic list

----- Original Message -----
From: Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...>

> I think you missed the point of mercutio's post.  The fact that the
> last poll only attracted so very few voters and the fact that only 3
> people unsubscribed (for undetermined reasons) indicates that most
> L-OT'ers don't give a rat's *ss about political threads or not --
> otherwise they would have voted.
>

I suspect that most people, being fairly busy, quickly  scan throught posts
looking for stuff of interest and delete the rest in bulk.   A poll on list
policy is not of immediate interest and gets ignored.   These same people,
being musicians on a music list, are probably looking for musically related
posts.   They would also quite possibly appreciate a better signal to noise
ratio of musical/non-musical posts, even on a 'OT' list.   I find it hard to
imagine people wanting more WOT postings.


People should be given the choice as to whether they should have to accept
downloading WOT posts just to get to the musical ones.

There is a simple way to see how many people actually want to read non-music
posts.  Just set-up the L-WOT  group and count how many people join it.  I
will be suprised if it gets into double figures.

As long as the Logic groups are email lists rather than newgroups, members
are going to want rules to prevent people taking liberties with their
bandwidth..  It is perfectly reasonable to assume that
LUG/L-OT/Sounddiver/EXS are music lists and all topics should be musical.

How much effort is it for those few people who so badly want to talk WOT to
join the L-WOT group?   Not much at all.

Hector.