How about this;
Its not Ok to post off-topic to any newsgroup.
--- or ---
Those of us who get tired of filtering it manually just unsubscribe and let
this list go the way so many have before it. I'm sure the hardest working,
most dedicated people will be the first to go.
There are some things that are not on-topic but are related. These posts I
understand. However, completely off-topic posts (e.g. video controllers
supported by X-servers) are just noise.
Douglas Toltzman
(someone who likes to help whenever possible but has unsubscribed from many
lists once the signal-to-noise ratio became intolerable)
At 03:30 PM 10/29/98 +0100, Ernst de Haan wrote:
>Hi Java gnurus,
>
>Concerning all the off-topic issues posted on this newsgroup lately:
>IMHO it's ok to use this network to bring things to the attention of the
>people on this list (i.e. not concerning either the Java-Linux port or
>the use of Java under Linux), but it would be a good thing to explicitly
>state this in the subject line.
>
>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...
>
>Whaddayathink?
>
>
>Ernst
>
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