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