Comments on: Oh No, Not Again!

By: Martyn Read

Martyn Read — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 12:58:01 +0000

It is annoying, it seems to have a 6 – monthly “schism” before settling down again.

Looks like it *might* be the end of having two large groups with the same objectives though, which was never going to be a good thing in the long term…

Ho Hum

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:00:22 +0000

I’m on several other railway based mailing lists, and none of the others are as bad as this one; the problem is one of big egos and cliques.

I’ve given up on music lists; I used to be on the Marillion mailing list, and that was one of the nastiest, flamiest lists I can ever remember. It was so bad it made parts of Usenet look civilised.

By: Lynn S

Lynn S — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:07:33 +0000

I used to be a discussion group junkie – mostly music – and I’ve seen just two kinds of groups: 1. Small groups in which almost the only topic is how to get more people to join; and 2. The disfunctional kind.

It almost seems inevitable that once a group reaches a sufficient level of activity to be interesting in quickly becomes disfuntional. One group I participated in was pretty sophisticated and included not only a lot of professional musicians but also lawyers, a doctor or two, several college professors – people whom you would expect to act mature but at the slightest provocation the forum turned into a kindergarten. Ironically, the few teenagers in the group were the best behaved of all.