When a topic degenerates into a two or three person shouting match, that's when I really appreciate my Netscape 7.1. I can activate my Kill Thread icon, and that stops all future posts with that same Subject line.
keith whaley
frank theriault wrote:
Tom,
It is not!
cheers, frank
From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: OT Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:23:49 -0500
Not only is it off topic it is the bigest waste of bandwidth on the internet. When I had a usenet server of my own I once went in and counted. There were about 10x as many complaints about off topic posts as there were off topic posts. In fact complaints about off topic used about 1/2 the disk space that rec.photo posts filled. Of course that was a long while back, and many have given up complaining over the years so it may only be 1/4 (wild guess) of the posts on usenet these days. Luckily we do not have it that bad here. Long threads indicate that they are interesting to a lot of folks until they deteriate into two guys saying, "Is so", "Is not".
