Agreed, [OT] would be nice. Also, threaded mail clients like
Thunderchicken can't tell the difference sometimes when someone clicks
the reply button on an OT thread. They completely change the subject,
but the headers are still there. So a non-OT topic will get buried in
the OT thread. I frequently collapse entire threads and hit the delete
button. So start a new message is all I'm saying.
On 3/1/2017 1:59 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 3/1/17 11:37, Chuck McCown wrote:
Personally I don’t have any desire for the list to grow or shrink or
change other than to remain a place where we can hang out. This list is
most certainly not a “safe place” and you will not see trigger warnings
unless you see the occasional literal “trigger warning”. It is kinda
like a friendly bar that I can hang out in without my Mormon neighbors
seeing me parked out front.
If someone has a problem with the off topic stuff marked OT, then they
need to learn how to filter it out in their mail client, not get hurt
feelings than someone isn't protecting them with a safe place.
The only change I would suggest is to always mark off topic as [OT]
which makes it stupid easy to create a subject filter looking for
string "[OT]" and not worry about the letters o and t in sequence get
caught in a normal word.
The social aspect of this list is the best part. I've been on lists
that went out of control like the old SPAM-L, and AFMUG is not even
close to the extreme SPAM-L was when it died.
~Seth
