Re: A question on how much of my list messaging is considered inappropriate content for the lists I post to?

On 1/1/26 01:19, Mark Millard wrote:
> I've received a public request via part of a bugzilla
> comment on a submittal:
> 
> "can you please stop treating our bug tracker and mailing
> lists as your personal blog?"
> 
> I'm not trying to gauge general interest in reading my
> posts: it is perfectly normal for appropriate list
> material to not be of interest to more than some subset
> of folks. Instead I'm after learning if some of my posts
> are viewed as inappropriate posting activity --and, if
> some are, what about them is inappropriate (what should
> not have been posted).
> 
> I've picked sending this request to freebsd-arm and
> freebsd-current, as I probably post to those more than
> to other lists most of the time. (Also, this sort of
> request does not fit well with bugzilla.) But replies
> need not be limited to content from those 2 lists.
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> 
1. Thanks for the help you have given me from time to time on a number
of bugs.  It is much appreciated.  And you've helped numerous others
as well.
2. I'm not the most qualified person to comment on the technical quality
of your posts, but they do seem to be helpful and well-informed, both of
which are crucial to the community.
3. But I do have a couple of stylistic notes on your posts, which I do
consider myself qualified to make.  Mainly, when replying to a lengthy
message, PLEASE try to trim as much of the original message as possible.
Not only does it reduce extraneous bits flowing through the pipes, but
also it focuses our attention on the part of the message relevant to
your reply.
4. And maybe stop for just a few minutes before making that first post
so that it's less necessary to see:
 > > > > Replying to Mark Millard:
 > > > Replying to Mark Millard:
 > > Replying to Mark Millard:
etc.

But let me re-emphasize that overall your messages are appropriate and
appreciated.  Thank you, Mark!                               -- George

P.S. It's definitely old-fashioned of me to worry about the number of
bits being shoved through the pipes, but let's not forget to worry
about how many of them are being slurped up by large language models.

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