But havent you (between you) now created another of these OL,OT or WYW threads? Thats how it works - people reply to something OT about something OT ad infinitum. Great fun isn't it? Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 February 2001 19:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: There's OK, Then There's OT, and Then There's OL (was: PDML > rewriting hi... > > > In a message dated 2/17/2001 10:41:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > [I wrote] > > > 3. OL messages. These are "contributions" to the PDML that have > > > essentially nothing to do with Pentax in specifics nor with > > > photography in general, and therefore, in my humble opinion, > > > should be considered Off List messages. > > > > Absolutely. With the total volume of traffic these days, many or > > most of the Off List "contributions" are about as welcome as the > > contributions the local pigeons make to the decor of my balcony. > > Unfortunately, Robert, I'm probably "preaching to the choir", > since the list > members who are carrying on all the "Way Off Topic" threads are > elsewhere, > embroiled in those threads, and would not be interested in this anyway. > > While I will admit that there could occasionally be some appropriate > photographic reference to these topics in the PDML, I'm going to > go out on a > limb and naively suggest that any thread (with spinoffs) that > discusses Mel > Gibson, the Enigma Machine, D-Day, Braveheart, Oliver Stone, John > Kennedy, > UFO's, God, "the government", Scottish history, whether "all men > are created > equal" or whether "all men are equal", Americans as a group, > propaganda, W.W. > II, DuPont Chemicals, General Motors, the Krupp Works, "the international > corporate mantra", "Remember the Alamo!", the Nazis, Ford Motor Company, > Henry Ford, Hitler, the US Revolution, British history, French and German > mercenaries, Ben Franklin, the "Founding Fathers", the Haitian > Revolution, > American automobile production, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian > government, Jewish refugees, "transcendental Truth in history", > Willys Jeeps, > the "underbelly of the 'corporate ethos'", the "national pastime of the > European nobility", W.W.I, the French Foreign Legion, > publications "for the > publics good", artillery shell proximity fuses, Bayer Chemicals, "the > so-called Zionist conspiracy", the invasion of Czechoslovakia, C-SPAN, > Pacifica, the BBC, and PBS radio just might be a wee bit > inappropriate for > the PDML. > > I am not trying to say that these topics are not worth > discussing. Rather, I > am suggesting that this should not be the forum for discussing them. > > But, what do I know... > > Fred > > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > > - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
