* b|c|r [Mon, 19 Apr 2004 at 15:32 -0400] > you dont have to be new to have this complaint. I've seen people come and > go, many times because of this same topic. > > Sometimes its justified, i supose, like conversations on reletivity. > maybe. but sometimes the conversations go so far astray, that they really > ought to occur elsewhere. > > all he was saying was that sometimes you know that this isnt the place for > your post. and before you hit the send key, maybe take that into > consideration. an off topic list would keep those posters in business > (have somewhere to send off-topicness), and still keep the rest of us > focused.
This list is a community, and for better or for worse, people talk about and respond to posts that interest them, on topic or not. That's life. We can try to keep it down to reasonable levels, and I think marking all off topic threads with OT is an attainable goal. More specifically on the recent favorite off-topic, you have to remember who this list largely consists of. To this particular group, theologic discussions of this nature or no more off topic than conversations on relativity might be to any other *nix group. Heck, one might even consider it less off topic as far is this group goes. I dare say there is a higher percentage of religiously affiliated (and strongly so) people here than the percentage of relativistic physicists in any *nix group. These are my own opinions, not those of the group. If anyone thinks I'm astray on any of these points, please let me hear your thoughts. Please DO: * Mark off topic posts with OT, this is in the interest of both sides * Take this list with a grain of salt * Keep a sense of humor * Think before you post * use Vim, it's awesome :) Please DO NOT: * Post to a thread you're not interested in. It only makes it longer. (This is not to say don't dissagree with a thread, that's another matter entirely, if you're interested in dissagreeing...) * Reply to a thread with a completely new and unrelated topic (hijack) Start a new one with a descriptive subject line (just had to throw this one in there, though it's not relavent to the recent threads)
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