[meteorite-list] OT Offtopic Filter

Wed Jul 6 12:24:16 EDT 2011

When I first started reading the messages on this list a decade ago, I 
felt similarly to Sergei. But since then, I've learned to be more open 
to others' interests and have learned a lot in the process, as Mark 
points out. I used to hate the for-sale messages and for some reason I 
thought they had nothing to do with the list; boy have my old 
perspective been quashed...but the least interesting to me now are the 
threads that are completely off-topic and should IMO be directed to the 
moderator if absolutely necessary: complaints about what others should 
or should not post (within reason).

This isn't a complaint about Sergei's comment as much as a recognition 
of the challenge faced by Art in keeping the sanity of the list as 
"lively" and "interesting". This list has rehashed the moderation and 
policing (off-) topic so many times that a very significant amount of 
carpal-tunnel on the delete button has developed on that subject. There 
is another option - the compiled email of list posts you can receive. 
It worked great when I was on it and allowed me to fly through the 
messages. While you can't save individual emails with it, you can just 
scroll through the daily activity without wearing out the keyboard - 
just the mouse -

Meanwhile, for every complaint, wouldn't it be great if the irritated 
person, instead of complaining and usually setting off this cascade of 
pent of mostly subjective passion on subjective, composed some lively 
discussion material and content themselves to re-direct the direction 
of the list. My appreciation goes out to those list members who 
patiently come up with new directions for the curious and enthusiastic 
list members and I love this list mostly for that - the unfettered 
enthusiasm and pure passion. Without you, the list would stagnate and 
not be so distinguished.

Other lists like meteorobs may have a thread about whether anyone has 
seen any meteors in Hercules and an answer "I saw two", which can go on 
and on, which are very useful to some, but somehow lack the passion 
that makes this list an exciting place to be. The Cometobs list just 
generally sends coded numbers back and forth among enthusiasts, 
wonderful lists in their own right, but then there's the Meteorite-list 
which you can pick up a cup off coffee and be amazed as well as driven 
up the wall, and with no shortage of peer review on demand.

Best wishes
Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ford <mark.ford at ssl.gb.com>
To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com 
<Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 11:26 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Offtopic Filter

There's off topic and there's off topic, Nasa sueing previous employees 
for
stuff they have been given, COULD turn out to be relevant to 
meteorites, an
awful lot of US institutions have traded state owned/Nasa materiel over 
the
years for example..

Now and again doesn't hurt, and I prefer it to the bickering anytime....

Mark

-----Original Message-----
 From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com 
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com]
On Behalf Of Bob Loeffler
Sent: 06 July 2011 15:04
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Offtopic Filter

Hi Jim,

I think Sergei was trying to make a point. :-) There are too many people
on this list who do stray from the topic of meteorites. NASA going 
after an
ex-astronaut to get an old camera back has NOTHING to do with 
meteorites.

Regards,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Wooddell
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 1:43 PM
To: Sergei Schmalz
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Offtopic Filter

Sergei,

Most email clients, both online and computer based, such as Outlook,
etc. have just what you ask for. You might try looking at your own
filters.

Cheers,

Jim Wooddell

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Sergei Schmalz <sergiuspro at yahoo.de> 
wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Please, could we have a filter, which, when switched on for a 
particular
subscribed user, would filter out all offtopic non-meteorite messages
(marked, say, by OT)? It's becoming a big daily burden to have to delete
manually or even look through all these massive offtopic messages coming
into my email box. Come on, I really dont have a need of NASA suing 
someone
for a camera or Crabs out there on a METEORITE list! There's a plenty of
other astronomy discussion boards and lists for that purpose.
>
> Thank you.
>
> With best regards
> Sergei Schmalz
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