You want the group to relate to a topic that you have in mind.
However, it's important to cooperate.
Our groups provide an orderly service. That means that everybody is expected to join the group that is best for him or her. These groups will work only if you coooperate.
We have to consider three factors for every message:
Our groups rapidly coalesce around a specific topic. Good group spirit demands that new subscribers must yield to the needs of the group. It is wrong to force the entire group to become involved in off-topic issues.
We have created many groups so that subscribers can discuss many issues. As a result, these groups have been able to maintain high standards. There is no justification for lowering those standards by introducing off-topic discussions.
All of the other subscribers joined the group with a specific idea in mind. It is not fair for you to come along with a different topic, just to suit your own needs at the expense of the others in the group.
A group that remains on topic has relevant, important, worthwhile, serious, and effective discussions. This creates a better, greater, and deeper understanding of issues than a group in which the topics switch at the whim of individual participants.
True, participants may sometimes feel dissatisfied when denied the ability to raise irrelevant, off-topic, or only tangentially related points. They may raise any of the following points:
Sometimes the argument moves away from the facts and turns against other people:
They may claim that their off-topic statement improves the situation:
The list goes on and on.
Please cooperate. There are good reasons why we have a series of groups instead of one big group.
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