** Sometime around 00:38 -0800 12/02/01, Chuq Von Rospach sent everyone:
>Vince Sabio:
>
> >FWIW, it is not uncommon for us to receive off-list messages of
> >thanks whenever we kill an off-topic thread. It seems that the folks
> >who enjoy -- or even tolerate -- such threads are well in the
> >minority, though of course it varies
>
>I'm not sure that's a safe assumption. Unhappy people give feedback. Happy
>people don't. fact of life. So you'll hear from folks who appreciate you
>doing away with something they don't like. You'll rarely hear from folks who
>say "I want off-topic stuff".
I disagree, Chuq -- if people don't like the fact that an off-topic
thread was killed, well, then they are, by your definition, "unhappy"
and thus would be disposed to contact us. Correct? Probably ... we
*do* often receive complaints on terminated threads -- though
typically from those who were participating in the subject threads,
themselves.
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