[Web4lib] Subscriber Removal Clarification

[Marion Sumerianlibrarian]

establishing the fundamental basis of the list and its
rules of order is a waste?

if other lists suffered meltdown as a result of such a
discussion then let the meldown begin! 

now, tell me, what do you think about wikipedia?

--- JQ Johnson <jqj at darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:

> Can any of the librarians on this list point to
> early literature from the
> ARPAnet about flame wars and list meltdowns?  The
> first list meltdown I
> remember -- though I'm sure it actually was far from
> the first -- was on
> "editor-people", an arpanet mailing list I moderated
> in the late 1970s.  As
> with the current web4lib discussion, we had a period
> of several days when
> people were so incensed about process and each other
> that they stopped
> talking about intellectual content.
> 
> It's a huge waste, and by the time the dust settles
> many of us will have
> either unsubscribed or set our spam filters to avoid
> reading web4lib.
> 
> Incidentally, the usual pattern in flame wars is
> that someone posts a
> metacomment about the flame war, and then everybody
> flames about the
> metacomment for a while.
> 
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