Power Trips

[Shane Hathaway]

James Lance wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 3:02 pm, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> 
>>In my book, the absolute best solution to the general problem of OT
>>messages is the ``[OT]'' in the subject. This makes it easy (a) for
>>humans to identify posts or threads that are of tangential interest or
>>(b) have a procmail filter in place that will toss messages with [OT]
>>to /dev/null. This is a social convention that I would like to see
>>gain more popularity among the masses.
> 
> 
> 
> Agreed.  OT isn't that hard to use.  If you get tired of a thread: fold it, 
> junk it, send it to /dev/null what ever. 

However, off-topic messages, even when labeled "OT", are generally 
frowned upon, at least in most of the communities I participate in.  In 
this group, the "OT" messages are generally what I'm looking for. ;-) 
Yet I avoid replying to off-topic posts because I don't want to reduce 
the S/N ratio as perceived by others.

Shane