With the off-topic threads recently (and the complaints about them), I
have come up with what I think is possibly the best solution (and also
one of the more complicated ones).
The challenge is this (and someone else will need to spearhead this as
I have neither the time to do it, nor the inclination, as a little
off-topicness now and then does not bother me): Write a filter that
emails going to members of PLUG will be run through. It would check to
make sure the email is on-topic (this would of course not be 100% fool
proof, and would probably need to either be a) trained, b) use Bayesian
filtering or c) both), and if the email is not on-topic, and does not
already have [OT] in the subject line, it would add it auto-magically.
The people who like [OT] threads go on about their business as usual.
Those who dislike them, or just want to skim them at times, can set up
filters (procmail, thunderbird, etc) to put the [OT] threads in a
different folder.
Of course the ideal situation would be to have everyone voluntarily
mark off-topic posts with [OT] in the subject line, but things which
require changes to human behavior have non-deterministic success rates.
:)
Grant
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