That was quick

[dream_labyrinth]

I just felt like a kid, now I feel like I'm grown-up and very sensible.
I'm watching a librarians' mailing list. There was - and most likely still is - a very silly discussion going on, all these serious librarians (all from university or special libraries, all with long years of practical experience after studying librarianship and most likely somehting else, too) picking at each other like primary school. Just for staying out of this discussion, I gain a few hundred years to my actual age.

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[holyrood.livejournal.com]

my library school mailing list is full of adults picking on each other, too. i *never* reply to anything, even if i want to add to the discussion, because i know anything i write will be flamed/picked on for days...and i can't contribute to spamming everyone's inboxes for the sake of getting my 2 cents in.

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

My feelings exactly. THat's why I decided to spam you guys' friends pages instead *gg*

[cleverusername2.livejournal.com]

Which mailing list is this, and what are they arguing over?

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

The name is Inetbib, I think it's the university library in Dortmund hosting it (We're talking Germany here)
They have been discussing the writing rules lately, which ended up on a rather personal level when the discussion was fortunately broken off by the administrator. This time it was about somebody complaining that a post he had put in the list (which is archived open to every user of this wonderful internet) had been fully quoted at the site of another university. He complained about that to the list instead of to the person responsible directly, and that started a whole discussion on how mean it was to spam people's inboxes with this kind of stuff. Which spammed my inbox considerably.

[cleverusername2.livejournal.com]

Yes, very mature!