Bob Young wrote: > Joe Menola wrote: >> On Saturday 30 September 2006 3:38 pm, Bob Young wrote: >> >>> Uhhhh.....if you have some desire to discuss the "original topic" is >>> there something that prevents you from either replying to a message >>> without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message >>> with a subject indicating what you want to talk about? >>> >> >> Uhhh, no there isn't. Nor is there anything preventing someone from >> attaching a reply to your rambling. >> > Are you suggesting there should be something? > > It sounds like your a fan of censorship and prefer rules to always be > strictly enforced with zero tolerance for any deviation. > >> This thread was high-jacked, and now the burden should move to those >> who post according the rules? >> > Actually a more accurate description might be that it was forked, as > the subject line was modified differentiating it from the original, > and there was certainly nothing to prevent anyone from replying to the > original message/thread and carrying on with a discussion of the > original topic. > >> I'm finished contributing to the mess...feel free to break the rules, >> I'll work around it. >> > Sorry, I just honestly don't see the any cause of major inconvenience > or damage (aka "mess") here. I'm sure that there must be examples of > threads that were completely "on topic" but you personally were not > interested in, obviously you dealt with those threads in some fashion. > Why is it so difficult to deal with the occasional OT thread the same > way, especially when it's clearly marked? > > It's not like the list is overrun with OT threads, nor do I see any > indication that the list is likely to be overrun with OT messages in > the future. >
There is no major problem. It's that I (for example) just lost my interest in the "slaveryware drift" some time ago and now I find it annoying to see "there are 3 new messages in AMD64" and to discover they are "oh..in that thread again". So I mark the thread as read and resume with previous occupation. If I had a simple way to ignore the thread and check it at will, say once a week, it would be perfect. Here we can see one of the advantages of the web forums over the mailing lists - in case like this the moderators in a web forum could just change the title of the thread and move it into some "chit-chat" category, dedicated for OTs. ;-) -- [email protected] mailing list
