Thinking about unsubscribing from sd-callers

[bjarvis]

Is it just me or has the bitchy signal-to-noise ratio of the sd-callers mailing list skyrocketed just lately?

The past two weeks seem to have been a nearly continuous stream of personal insults between supposedly professional callers concerning either individuals' calling practices, club activities, or communication skills. Only Ruth Riegelhaupt-Herzig and Clark Baker seem to have been rising about the crowd somewhat to discuss issues rather than hurl personal insults.

After catching up on reading last night, I almost fired off an unsubscribe request. I don't have spare time to deal with such silliness. Still, there is occasionally a redeeming post, so I'm holding off for a couple of days. Perhaps things will improve. Perhaps my tolerance will increase. Perhaps I'll just use a kill filter. :-^

Comments

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Periodically, I'm tempted to reply to some of the postings with something to the effect of "Either stop posting or go back on your meds!" but instead I intentionally divert my attention elsewhere for a few minutes, then return to realize that it's just not worth my time/effort to respond.

One can hardly read the characters on my keyboard anymore though for wear & tear, and the "d" key has taken quite a pounding.

Yeah, perhaps plain old mailing lists have run their course and its time to try something new.