[tied] Re: RO eccles. term.

Thanks, Glen,

I know the pain.

I will propose some new moderatorial regulations soon. They should
help to redress balance on this list and they'll discourage the
posters from losing focus. Tighter discipline is necessary for the
list to maintain its desirable intellectual standard.

Piotr

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
>
> Someone, whose name has been swept away by the mind-boggling
> tsunami of recent posts, had said:
> >Actually, both expressions would be rendered in English as
> >`I'm tortured by a pain` or something equivalent.
>
> I'm now tortured by the pain of deleting hundreds of posts a day
> of threads that are either trivial or very narrowly focused. So much
> so that I've forgotten whether I'm registered to an Indo-European
> forum or a Romanian one.
>
> Perhaps we could all agree at least to cut down the size of our
> posts by limiting the length of our quotes of others. I've seen
> many posts thus far that quote the entire post of someone else
> for no reason other than to be annoying. I'm considering hiring a
> linguistic hitman >:( Why send a post that's 12Kb when we can
> send a more readable 2Kb message??
>
> What could also help is to send ONE post to respond to everyone
> rather than cutesy individualized responses. Otherwise we will be
> hit by another tsunami.
>
>
> = gLeN
>
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