At 01:29 PM 6/14/00 -0700, Aaron Nabil wrote:
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These off-topic posts really bug me, there are a dozen better mailing lists and newsgroups. What bugs me even more is people answering off topic posts BACK TO THE LIST.
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Sometimes off-topic posting does get out of hand, but small transgressions such as Jeff's certainly aren't as earth-shattering as you're making it out to be. Especially considering the amount of help Jeff's given this list. Why should he be forced to join yet another list just to ask a question that many people here can answer and won't significantly disrupt the list? Personally, I consider most of the lists I'm on to be a community of professionals who share equipment, software, or other interests, not hard-assed "this topic only" question and answer forums. Some are stricter than others, but most allow for some small amount of digression from the stated topic, and that's fine. Then again, maybe you flew off the handle simply cause you're having a bad day. If so, I hope it gets better for you. Personally, this week has been horrid for me, but I haven't quite gotten to the point of snapping a keyboard over my knee yet. -- Kirk Mitchell-General Manager mitch@keyconn.net Keystone Connect Unlock Your World Altoona, PA 814-941-5000 http://www.keyconn.net - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.