Hi David
Hey Keith,
Whats off topic about honey. Its about the best darn
biofuel for the human body you can get. No seriously I would accept
that its off topic and duly marked it O.T when replying.
I know you did, and welcome, no problem at all - it was just the case
that sprang to mind, it happens quite often and seldom goes too far,
no harm done. No need for a school marm, eh?
My point in replying here and bringing this up is that I agree with
you. It is and would be extremely hard to define whats on topic and
whats off topic. I realise that without restrictions it makes the
daily download a bit top heavy for some people but as you and others
have so often pointed out there is always the delete button. I
certainly dont envy you your job, its certainly not one I would want.
Nor me! I should add maybe that I'm not dead set against such
restrictions, but for all the people who've demanded that it be
restricted, I've not yet heard any sensible suggestions on how it
could be done without doing more harm than good, and without having
to be changed every 10 minutes. Not restricting it is the only
practical choice that I can see.
I see you get the occasional grizzle guts and you have to spend time
replying which takes up your time.
Yes, but it could be worse. Someone wrote me recently: I'm a member
of numerous lists and this is the most active (and best mannered) of
them all. Take a bow, guys!
In my opinion both you and Steve with his site do a darn good job so
both of you take a thankyou from me and all the others out there who
appreciate your efforts.
(Bow) - many thanks, David. By the way, are folks aware that Webconx
and Journey to Forever are partner sites? Very independent, but
partners nonetheless. I think we're pulling about 150,000 hits a
month between us now, rising fast. There is HUGE interest worldwide
in biofuels! (Sure, JtF's not only biofuels, but still.)
All best, thanks again
Keith Addison
Journey to Forever
Handmade Projects
Tokyo
http://journeytoforever.org/
B.r., David
Also, keeping it narrow means defining what's on-topic and what's
not. Do you think you could do that without risk of excluding
valuable and on-topic discussion? Some of the guys were talking about
the wonders of New Zealand honey the other day, clearly off-topic,
but they're sensible and didn't push it too far. So fine, honey's
off-topic, put it on the banned list. (Why didn't you object to that,
by the way? - it wasn't about fuels.) Er, but before you ban it, do
an archive search and you'll find discussion on using honey as a
feedstock for ethanol. So maybe you could define it as off-topic,
unless it's on-topic? And so on and on. Anyway, don't be deterred,
go on, make your list. When you've finished it, please persuade the
membership to accept your definitions. Don't be surprised when people
start yelling at you: Stop wasting time with all this off-topic
political BS, let's get back to biofuels!
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