> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Arthur T.
>
> On 14 Jan 2008 05:30:50 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
> Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote:
>
> >Also if a topic veers off the
> >original path... Add the OT: somewhere in it so that the
> conscientious
> >that does not want the noise can kill it with a spam-killer.
>
> I *started* one of those off-topic threads with "OT:"
> in the Subject. Someone replying removed the OT:. The
> mutated Subject then got over twice the FUPs the original did.
>
> BTW, I am sorry about that thread. If I had thought it
> would generate even half of those FUPs, I wouldn't have posted it.
Once upon a time somebody started (offered to start?) a list named
"IBM-MAIN-OT" or similar. It went over like a lead ballon, perhaps in
part because IBM-MAIN itself is not moderated.
Perhaps the time is ripe(r)?
-jc-
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