On October 7, 2003 06:11 am, Margot wrote:

>
> The OT list has been considerably less aggressive lately, and is
> actually a fun place to be right now - recent discussions have included
> the death of Latin, interior decoration and soft furnishings, and male
> and female beauty products - as well as the usual arguments about war
> and religion etc of course!
>
> We made a conscious decision to try to keep most of our OT stuff on the
> OT list, to avoid newbies being put off the newbie list by endless
> personal conversations that had nothing to do with Mandrake problems -
> apparently there were complaints to the expert list that we were too
> busy having OT conversations and not dealing with the newbie problems!
>
> Obviously we want to keep the newbie list a friendly place, but for a
> while the friendship element seemed to take over, and the poor newbies
> were flocking to the expert list to get answers to questions that could
> have been answered here.
>
> Lee, please do come and join us on the OT list! Hope to see you there...
>
> Margot

Actually, I have to agree with Lee, the OT list has largely been flame wars 
and policitally motivated ones at that.  Not to mention a lot of 
anti-american (and anti North Amercian) mud slinging.

I've taken to popping in..opening a couple of posts and then toasting every 
message on the list.

I'll be unsubscribing to that list as soon as I can get around to it because 
it is most definitely not a friendly place.  If I want flame wars about 
politics and religion I can go to the local bar, thanks. 

ttfn

John

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