Admin inquiry about off-topic messages

[Rick Jansen]

Dear all,

Thanks very much to those who responded to my inquiry! I got 
more than 30 messages. I'm very happy to report most of the 
people who replied thought the off-topicality within reason,
or even fitting their interests. However, some people replied 
that they would like less or no OT messages. 

Some people suggested clearer labelling of messages in case
of off-topic topics. Fortunately that is already happening, 
OT topics are usually labelled "OT". As far as I'm concerned 
"digital" diy isn't OT.

The modern mail-readers like Netscape etc enable us today
to very easily sort and delete messages, at least far more
easily than a few years ago. Also the bandwith of communication
connections has increased a lot, I haven't seen a single 
complaint about slow phone line and modem connections in 
quite some time. So, all in all, OT messages or messages 
of little interest are more easily dealt with today.

As I wrote, I'm sort of responsible to keep the topicality of 
synth-diy to it's intended purpose, that is why I inquired.
But, I think all is well :-) Do keep in mind that your mail 
is distributed to more than 500 people, costing them time 
to read and machine resources to distribute.

Many of you expressed a good feeling of "community" on 
synth-diy, something that is not often found on similar 
lists. I totally agree! I'm very happy this list brings 
so much pleasure and info to you (and me).

Cheers,

Rick Jansen


> There have been quite some off-topic messages on synth-diy
> lately. I would like input from you wether there is too
> much off-topic discussion going on at the moment.
> 
> Synth-diy is a list to discuss synthesizer diy electronics,
> but most of the traffic at this moment is about various
> other topics. I don't mind this at all personally, but I'm
> sort of responsible to keep the list to it's promised topics.
> 
> Please reply to me privately, NOT to the list, if you think
> there are too many OT messages, or if you're happy with the
> topicality as is.

Rick Jansen
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