Imagine the forums being directly emailed to your inbox, now you too know what the community_round_table newsgroup is like.

I at first thought the idea was a good one. Having news about the Commity Round Table and events emailed to stay informed about what happened and what was going on. Also introducing topics that could perhaps be discussed. I believe this was the intention of LL.

As I attempt to write this I have recieved 7 emails from the newsgroup, this may be normal for a usual newsgroup, but newsgroups don’t usualy contain such pointless replies as this does and I would never purposely subscribe to a newsgroups that contains such drama.

The commity round table was made so that members of the community and Lindens in charge of the community could discuss things openly, usualy in a campfire type setting. The meetings usualy go well since the introduction of the soap box, the first meeting was a mess with certain… “residents” causing their usual drama.

Anyway, the current format of the newsgroup for the CRT is horrible and needs to be fixed as soon as LL can. Suggestions that can solve the problem is to have some interface that we can read and post the messages, or even just posting on the forums and keeping the newsgroup for official LL announcements on the CRT.

Edit: I should mention that LL is not totaly inept or encouraging of bad behavior. In the onslaught of emails that occured Adam Linden was maintaining to the best of his power some sense of order. I don’t blame LL for others somewhat mis-use of the newsletter, but rather the lack of percievement of such situations and action to counter-act such a thing to a better degree (i.e. have a better place for discussion).

Also there is not a consistant flurry of emails as there would be if I actualy had the forums emailed to me. But rather its a kind of chain-of-events, with one email potentialy setting off a trove of others in it’s path. A mostly rare occurence but a highly annoying one when it happens.