full-disclosure - I don't know if anyone has noticed...

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Message-ID: <9258833.1110501415757.JavaMail.ericscher@mac.com>
From: ericscher at mac.com (Eric Scher)
Subject: I don't know if anyone has noticed...

I just received my first "Digest" version of F.D. since the switchover.

Seeing all the subject lines in a row kind of made it stand out that  "US pres election was hacked away by Dumbya & Cabal."  was the subject line on 10 out of 31 posts. That's about 32%. 

Think about that. 

32% of the bandwidth that it took to deliver that e-mail was for subject matter better suited to DemocraticUnderground or FreeRepublic.   (And yes, I grasp the irony of THIS message in the context of the prior statement)

Look, it's not my bandwidth, so I don't really care very much, but am I -REALLY- the only one thinking this has gotten out of hand? And this isn't about free speech either. This is about appropriate content. When I was in college, I  didn't sign up for a Math class so I could listen to the professor lecture on political science.

It would be really great if the people on this list could control themselves on this issue. That's probably a completely unrealistic expectation, but every once in a while it would do us all good to remember that self-control IS an option.

I apologize for wasting everyone's time with this message and I will make up for it by not bringing it up again.

eric