[meta] Offtopic posting

Tom Bruno crweb at vwords.com
Wed Sep 8 22:27:17 CDT 2004


The other 3 lug mailing lists I'm on require [OT] in the topic.  I'm
glad we have the freedom to not HAVE to place [OT] in the subjust, but
it still would be nice :)

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 22:21, Jason Clinton wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 19:24, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 05:40 pm, Jason Clinton wrote:
> > 
> > > Offtopic posts are par for the game, of course. But it would be nice 
> > > if people still put [OT] in the subject so that they landed in my 
> > > Offtopic folder which I only paruse when I have nothing better 
> > > to be doing (not very often these days).
> > 
> > Gee, I'm sorry Jason, we had not received notice of this important time-saving 
> > plan of yours, nor had we received the Official Judging Criteria by which we 
> > were supposed to pre-classify our posts for your convenience.  Given the 
> > limited on-topic content of your own recent posts, I'm not surprized that 
> > this list poses a major time-management problem for you. 
> 
> It's a request; not an edict. Had I the power to issue edicts (and it's
> probably good that I don't), you would have been banned from this list
> about two years ago.
> 
> As for the personal attacks, I'm sure that if you were to grep your mail
> logs you would find that all my posts (with exception to responding to
> Lucas and this one) in the last three months have been about computers.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, the above crosses the acceptable behavior line.
> 
> 
> 
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