I have been reading all messages and responding to quite a few; however, as early as tomorrow, I might be dropping off the list due to reassignment to OS/390 areas.
>>> Wayne Brown <[log in to unmask]> 04/03 12:36 PM >>>
If we're taking a straw poll here, then I agree with Cortlandt Wilson.
Wayne
Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]> on 04/03/2001 02:28:32 PM
Please respond to Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT:"Actually, wildly off-topic" messages
I agree with John C.
Larry A. Barnes
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Coldwater Creek Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Clogg
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 12:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT:"Actually, wildly off-topic" messages
I must agree with Michael. Sure, there are many of us who are interested in
debates on politics, religion, whether the moon landings were hoaxes, etc.
I'm also sure there are discussion areas somewhere for those topics. This
list is allegedly an HP3000 list. Most of us who subscribe to this list
receive the postings while we are at work, and most of us have plenty of
work to do. I have dropped out of the list a few times, because the drain
on my time was simply unmanageable. Please, let's try to keep the volume of
off-topic stuff reasonable. I agree with Cortlandt that a list of standard
prefixes, while never adequate to cover all situations, would be helpful for
both filtering and archive searches.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cortlandt Wilson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:02 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT:"Actually, wildly off-topic" messages
Michael,
> What concerns me here is that the vast bulk of HP3000-L has become
> off topic (a trend well documented in the archives for a while now
:)
I think you get that backwards. I'm looking at all the headers on
the newsgroup for the last few weeks and the majority of them are on
topic! And the majority of them I never read. That is just the way
of a common list server or newsgroup.
> While I like the occasional OT post (like I'm sure most of you do),
> aren't people getting a little tired of all the political/religious/
> non-e3000 issue related postings?
No, I'm not.
> It seems we haven't even given Jeff's filters a chance to work
> before they were ignored (hence the OT in this subject field :).
I thought the most important part of the filter's idea was the
standard pre-fixes?
Was a list published? If so, this would be a good time to publish
them again. Would you please?
- Cortlandt
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