Craig Lalley wrote:

>OT posts are supposed to be marked with OT in the subject line.  This is
>done so that people can develop rules in their e-mail programs to ignore
>off topic conversations.

Off-topic posts are supposed to be marked with "OT:" in the subject
line.  Note the colon.  Please pay attention to the details, people.  It's
computer software and doesn't have the ability to read your mind (at least
not that the NSA will admit... yet).

 From the ListServ online help:

>When you mail to a list that has operational topics, note that you must
>always follow the topic definition in the Subject: line with a colon. For
>instance, if you are mailing to a list that has the topic "ANNOUNCE", and
>you want your mail to go only to the users who have that topic set, your
>subject line should look like this:
>
>Subject:     ANNOUNCE: I'm getting married in the morning!
>
>If you do not use the colon, LISTSERV will not recognize the word ANNOUNCE
>as being a topic and the message will be distributed normally, that is, to
>anyone with the ALL or OTHER topics set.

Thank you.

P.S.  Those of you with the brain-dead email clients (including at least
some flavors of LookOut!) that appear to delete the "OT:" tags when you
reply (It probably thinks they are "Re:" comments.) should either figure
out how to set the configuration options to stop that, or pay enough
attention manually and put them back in when it strips them out. Of course,
the optimal solution may well involve getting software that makes things
easier instead of harder, but that's just one opinion.  I suppose another
option is to continue to do silly things and let people think what they will.

I wish y'all well.

--
Jeff Woods
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