Or better still... have no LIST at all.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Scott Howard wrote:
> OK, so maybe I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but here's a suggestion
> for keeping this list at least mostly on-topic.
>
> DON'T REPLY TO OFF-TOPIC POSTS!!
>
> Don't reply in public
> Don't reply in private
> Don't flame in public
> Don't flame in private
>
> Just don't reply at all!!
>
> Eventually (or most likely quite quickly) people will begin to get the idea.
>
> The problem we have at the moment is that the SLUG list contains a wide
> cross-section of the IT industry. That means that when you ask a NT question,
> odds are that someone will reply with the answer in short order. Once that
> happens to you once (or once you see it happen for someone else), then next
> time you've got a question, why not post it to the list that got results
> last time?
>
> The same goes for SPAM. SLUG (and other lists, but SLUG seems the worst of
> the ones I'm on) seem to get about 10 replies for each spam msg sent to the
> list (even the ones in Japanese!). So instead of having to delete just one
> messages, people have to put up with an entire thread on it.
>
>
> So I call on everyone, IGNORE the OT's, IGNORE the SPAM's, and lets keep
> the list on-topic (where it actually seems to have been for the past few
> weeks!)
>
> Scott.
>
>
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