***Forum criminals labor uniun member*** playing with words :)

[Ron Piterman <rp...@gmx.net>]

one should diffrenciate between bad role understanding, abuse, and 
benefit - what he was doing is taking a benefit but not abusing - 
otherwise I would have been the first one (or maybe second - if you draw 
faster...) to shout ;-)

Aaron Bartell wrote:
> I disagree.  If there was very little traffic (less than 20 posts a day) and
> it wasn't a high profile list then there would be few who would care and OT
> posts would be just fine. But this is a high profile list and it gets A LOT
> of posts a day.
> 
> The fact of the matter is that for Sumithra to get an answer to a simple
> question it caused the other 500 people on this list to first read his email
> to see if they could help with his supposed Tapestry question.  But after
> finding out that it wasn't a Tapestry question at all but rather laziness of
> finding the right forum they hit the delete key.
> 
> In my mind there is a protocol to follow (at least that's how it works on
> the other mailing lists I frequent) and if somebody is posting something
> that is totally off topic then it should be addressed so other don't think
> it is ok to post off topic. 
> 
> I am not trying to make a big deal of this. If this is a forum that allows
> OT threads I will shut my trap.
> 
> I drop my case (though I still agree with myself :-)
> Aaron Bartell
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Casey [mailto:patcasey@adelphia.net] 
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:49 AM
> To: 'Tapestry users'
> Subject: RE: ***Forum criminals labor uniun member*** let it be
> 
> 
> I'm with Ron on this one. I don't mind the occasional OT post; I've been
> guilty of using this forum for non tapestry stuff myself and I don't see
> anything intrinsically wrong with it. Ultimately it's a community of like
> minded people, and folks are occasionally going to stray into OT land. 
> 	
> I don't see that as a problem; rather I see it as a sign of the strength of
> the community.
> 
> 	--- Pat
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Ron Piterman
>>Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:38 AM
>>To: tapestry-user@jakarta.apache.org
>>Subject: ***Forum criminals labor uniun member*** let it be
>>
>>this is one of the more friendly and high-response-rates forums I know 
>>- so let the people enjoy...
>>cheers,
>>Ron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Aaron Bartell wrote:
>>
>>>Don't mean to be nitpicky but. ..  to keep the list as focused as
>>
>>possible
>>
>>>it is best to not post something here that has nothing to do with
>>
>>Tapestry.
>>
>>>I know it is easy because you are already subscribed to this list, 
>>>but
>>
>>there
>>
>>>are many SQL forums and mailing lists out there that this would be 
>>>more appropriate in.
> 
> <snip>
> 
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