Randy Thayer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have personally and professionally benefited from the off-topic
> discussions and been uplifted and enlightened by the humor on HP3000-L.

The problem is that there's no convenient way to separate the "good OT"
posts from the "bad OT" posts, and as pointed out, a fair number of
postings are mislabeled to start with.

IMHO, Listserv is broken because it does not have an option to *require*
a topic tag so that people would be forced to decide what category each
post falls into.  If it could do this then I think it would help clean
up the mess.

The only options I see at the moment are A) everybody calms down and
avoids the politics and religion (except for the really funny posts)
or learn that Usenet provides several tens of thousands of newsgroups
that *aren't* about the HP3000 and where such rants are perfectly on-
topic and there are lots of people just dying to debate these topics
with you, or B) this becomes a "moderated" list/newsgroup where each
post has to be "approved" before it gets redistributed.

G. (checking in via comp.sys.hp.mpe)

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