I am one of the (possibly few) who don't get the 'OT:'.  But I still get
tons of garbage because everyone else forgets the OT:  (or they remember the
OT but forget the ':').

I agree with John, and I would be in the same boat as Gavin except that I
need the info in the few ON topic posts more than he does (because I know
less).

Maybe we could redefine OT to mean ON topic, then the serious ones can set
themselves up to read ONLY those, and just remember to put the OT: in all
our posts.  Absurd, but I bet it would work better that what we have now.

Dave Powell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cortlandt Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] No longer reading HP3000-L.


> Jeff Kell,
>
> Tom Brandt points out:
> >You can always go to http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html, select
> >the "change settings" link and uncheck the OT topic.
>
> More specifically:
> http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?SUBED1=hp3000-l&A=1
>
> Is there something about this that doesn't work?
>
> I recall the meeting of SIG leaders where we agreed to ask Jeff to set
this
> up.  (Kudos to Jeff for offering to do it)
> The topic-code categories we agreed to establish were:
>  Administrivia
>  Cobol
>  Cs
>  Image
>  Java
>  Mpe
>  Ot
>  Posix
>  Sql
>  Sysman
>  Web
>
> It seems to me therefor that we fixed Gavin's S/N ratio problem with a
> "noise" filter.  For the most part people seem to be using the codes.  In
> particular I observe almost %100 compliance with the "OT" code.   To
extend
> Gavin's metaphor I hear what seems to me to be noise but I'm not catching
> the signal.  It there something that I am missing here?
>
> P.S.  What category should this message come under?   IMO "OT" is
> inappropriate.
>
> Cortlandt Wilson
> (650) 966-8555
>
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