On 1/12/07 11:14 AM, "Shel Belinkoff", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In what way > was asking for a recipe, and were the responses, pushing "political and > social agendas?" Should we not ask any off topic questions? I am not Dan, but I have to agree with him. I believe he is stressing that we restrain ourselves and exercise the "sense of proportion", not particularly objecting to OT itself PDML being what it is, a thread could very easily turn into completely something else. I admit I am guilty too in participating in some OT threads, however, as long as we do not "push" it too much, blowing it out to too hot a debate or even argument, occasional OT make people laugh and add some character to this list. But as he says, if it goes too far too long, leading to flame war, pitting against each other, it serves no purpose. There have been too many of those lately. Some of the recent OT's just went too long perhaps. Usualy, they peak and subsides naturally in a reasonable time. I for one learned a lot though, about English usage, buffalo, American psyche on flag, guns, health care and all other countless OTs :-). Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
