30 Jul
2006
30 Jul
'06
9:07 a.m.
On 30 Jul 2006, at 02:23, Bill Pilkington wrote:
This is NOT a retaliation or an instigation for a debate, but I actually support a bit of personal dialogue on e-groups. I belong to several groups, and off topic dialogue is totally normal.
this is true - but in the 10 years i've been on this list, any off- topicness has always been shouted down by people complaining about the waste of their bandwidth (which was understandable back when i was using a 9.6k modem to read my email) historically this list has always been highly intollerant of off- topic converstations - which is odd considering that we're here to discuss the works of two people who it could be argued, totally embody the meaning of off-topicness :)