Don't know if this was the beginning of it or not
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From: broi...@ibm-main.gti.net (Jeffrey R. Broido)
Date: 7 Mar 2004 05:14:41 -0800
Local: Sun, Mar 7 2004 8:14 am
Subject: Re: [forbidden word for peons]: Off topic posts
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Folks,
I would like to remind everyone that there is a another mailing
list
(actually, a Yahoo Group) out there called IBM-Main-OT. That's "OT" for
"Off-Topic". So, instead of engaging in off-topic discussions in this
list, where
they are clearly inappropriate, why not move them over there? It's easy
to
subscribe (unless you are in India, perhaps, assuming the Indian
government is
still attempting to block access to Yahoo). To subscribe, simply follow
this link
and follow the instructions on the resulting page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IBM-Main-OT/
Regards,
Bomber
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:38:30 -0600, Darren, our liege lord, graciously
wrote:
> <snip> Stop with the off-topic posts!!! Putting "OT" in the subject
line
> does not excuse you from following the rules. <snip>
_____________________________________
Jeffrey R. Broido, Morristown, NJ USA
"No Statements Flagged in this Assembly"
-----Original Message-----
Ed Gould
All:
I do not know how often you visit the yahoo site for the group.
But apparantly YAHOO in their infininte wisdom has made the default to
enable "chat" as part of YAHOO's group facility.
That means that people of lets say less than diserable character hang
around and try and engage you in chat. As far as I can see there is
little or nothing the typical user can stop from engaging people in
chat.
I asked YAHOO and they said the owner of the group has to disable chat
for the entire group.
I am asking the group to ask Darren to disable CHAT for IBM-Main.
According to YAHOO the owner must go to:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/members/chat/ygchatmod-
01.html
And select to disable chat. What do other think about asking Darren . I
am ccing him on this email.
Please discuss with darren what you think of this idea.
Ed
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