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From: "Chris Watts" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Serious genealogical questions
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:43:15 -0000
References: <dljk+AAw2$m6EwQz@tdrake.demon.co.uk>



----- Original Message -----
From: "Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake" <>
To: <>
Sent: 27 February 2001 19:19
Subject: Re: [SoG] Serious genealogical questions


> In message <005801c0a0c0$c87eebe0$>, Bonnie Ostler
> <> writes
> >I agree with Graham Jaunay. I ventured to ask one genealogical question
a
> >few weeks ago and it went unanswered while the endless stream of
> >conversation continued. There is a great pool of knowledge among the
> >subscribers on this list that could be put to use but it is being wasted.
>
> That's your view and you are entitled to it, but it isn't mine and I
> suspect it isn't that of many others. Some of us enjoy the off topic
> digressions and ventures into humour as well as the strictly
> genealogical. Some of those who do provide good genealogical answers on
> this list might also find your comment that their knowledge is being
> wasted by digressions to be rather patronising.

I share Graham's view. A LITTLE banter is not a bad thing but, IMHO, it is
now out of proportion - 5% is fine, but it must be nearer 50%. It certainly
has reached the point where I do not
bother to read everything and am considering whether to continue to
subscribe at all - and I am not surprised that new-comers are scared away.


> Surely the answer to off topic issues is to rely on the referee to step
> in with yellow cards when he deems fit, rather than to spend time
> dscussing what we do and do not like, which I find the most boring
> discussions of all.
> --

IMHO the referee is just a little too tolerant in this respect.
No, the most boring is the long-running one pandering to the egos of some
Yorkshiremen!

Chris Watts



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