Because it has the OT header. Limited OT postings with that header are allowed because they are easy to filter. Without the header and embedded in on topic threads they annoy.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Kevin O'Malley" <[email protected]> To: "vortex-l" <[email protected]> Subject: [Vo]:Off Topic: "Flu" Season Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2014 9:53 PM Why is it that off topic posts like "flu season" don't get a Vort kicked off the list when other off-topic posts like christianity get a vort kicked off? On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:08 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: Sorry but since none of the usual "policy experts" want to touch this with a ten-foot poll, it is shaping up to have some features in common with other civilization-impacting failures of "policy experts" with which this list is all-too familiar: Early symptoms of Ebola are "flu-like" and it is contagious during these "flu-like" symptoms. Now ... consider the fact that flu season is upon us. But you know what's _really_ frightening about this? Not one of the goddamn idiot "authorities" has even mentioned, let alone assessed, this confounding situation's impact on public health containment measures. Now THAT'S frightening! Read the CDC's guidelines on monitoring and movement of persons with "exposure" and tell me their guidelines work for a country in the throes of massive incidence of "flu-like symptoms".
