Hi, all -- Since I'm a definite contributor, though I hope not terribly often, I probably ought to chime in...
...and then Derek D. Martin said... % % At some point hitherto, Roman Neuhauser hath spake thusly: .. % > mutt-chat, so that those who feel the urge to send non-technical, OT % > stuff to mutt-users would have a place to go. % ... % discussions almost always result directly from discussions that % originally WERE on-topic, and are unavoidable. Humans have a penchant Agreed, at least with the first part. The reason I leave OT conversations on the list is because I have often learned from such things, and even seen them come back on topic and continue. Sure, a return is rare, but it happens; learning something new, though, isn't. % for going off on tangents, and you can not possibly hope to legislate % this behavior. Creating new sublists to "solve" the problem DOES NOT % WORK. EVER. I would say that a chat list could work if folks could be trusted to change the thread to the chat list (just change the M-F-T: header, right?). That probably won't happen. Instead of a chat list, what about a more rigorous practice of marking OT posts as OT in the subject line (as I have above, 'cuz this really has fallen off topic!) so that those who want to speed-read (or save such for later) can skip them? That seems like a nice middle ground, and once we get the practice established the occasional flame ought to keep things in line. Heck, there could even be a mutt-users netiquette guide posted every month for the benefit of newbies; we experienced folks could $procmail it to /dev/null and never see it (unless, if we were clever, there were changes from the version posted the previous month :-) % % OT posts are a fact of life on mailing lists, unless you're on a % mailing list that happens to attract only the most stodgy and boring Here's where I would agree with the "second part" above. This list, though, has not attracted anything like stodgy and boring people :-) HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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