On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 13:15, Todd Lyons wrote: > Carroll Grigsby wrote on Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:39:08PM -0500 : > > > > With all due respect, putting this thread in the same category as that mess > > last week is a huge leap. For one thing, this hardly a controversial topic. > > I did not say it was the same category regarding the topic. I said > marking a message with OT shows that the email is an abuse of the > intended audience (in the author's opinion, I should have said). I did > not attack Praedor as he has been an avid participant in this mailing > list and I don't want to be responsible for curttailing that. A warning > just means that I'm trying to enforce the rules, it doesn't mean that > I'm angry. > > Having said all of that, here is a two step guideline to writing > messages to any mailing list, not just this one. > > 1) Compose a subject for your question. > 2) If the subject includes OT or Offtopic, delete the email without > sending or send it to the correct forum for that topic. > > I'm not mad. I'm just trying to increase the SNR of this mailing list. > > And Praedor was right. His question could have been worded only > slightly different and would have been well received. Again, I'm not > mad.
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