I totally agree with Tom and Ray. I have thought of unsubscribing many
times. The last couple of weeks has been particularly tough. However, I
haven't done so. I don't want to feel like I have given up and that "they"
had the best of me.

OT filtering is working in most cases. I just hope that someone with an
interesting technology related "OT" email i.e. not HP3000 specific, do NOT
put "OT" in the subject.

Francois Desrochers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:58 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Where did the HP3000 List go to.
>
>
> At 08:43 AM 11/4/2004, you wrote:
>
> >I think that OT posts are not the problem, rather it's a lack of
> >professionalism, and at the very least, a lack of common
> courtesy that
> >allows any post to degenerate into a war of words that only
> a select (and
> >repeated) few members wish to participate in.
>
> I agree with this, Ray. OT threads used to be informative,
> entertaining and
> rare; because people were courteous and respectful even when they
> disagreed. That's not true any more, and the reason I turned
> OT off. I have
> better things to do than delete dozens of message each day.
> When people
> post off-topic stuff without the OT tag, the utility of this
> list goes down
> even further to the point where I am ready to follow Tom and
> Tim out the
> door. I've had it.
>
> --
> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
> 130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
> Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
> http://www.northtech.com/
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