On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> What about agreeing on prepending "OFFTOPIC: " to the subject line if
> the message neither concerns the port nor using Java on Linux? Those of
> us who want to, can filter these messages out...
Good idea in theory, but in my experience not likely to be successful.
There are always new members to the list who don't know about this
convention, and for the existing list members there is no guarantee
they are going to adhere to such a convention.
Robert.
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Robert P Biuk-Aghai, University of Macau, Faculty of Science and Technology
http://hyperg.sftw.umac.mo/robert/ tel: +853-3974365 fax: +853-838314
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Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question and the answer is no.
