[arachne] Re: Working (OT storms brewing)

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Personally I like a little OT stuff, but it can become too much to
read.

Whether: amusing, informative; or tetchy, flaming, boring; it will all
be archived for posterity (or court cases <g>)

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
To: <arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 1:06 PM
Subject: [arachne] Re: Working (OT storms brewing)


> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 22:35:19 +0100, John Sparks wrote:
>
>
> > Working (good news: sheltered from OT storms; bad news: in a bit
of a
> > coma)
>
> The OT issue must be faced sooner or later--so I will  bring it up
> now.
>
> Mel has informed us that he is taking down the coolist list which
> has tolerated and strongly championed off topic posting. This list
> here was originally set up with the rubric of no off-topic posting
> allowed. This is going to be a problem as everyone migrates here.
>
> The original Arachne list also tolerated off-topic posting. I think
> that wide ranging discussion is important to the life of the list;
so
> I propose that we return to the original Arachne anarchy of letting
> a thousand topics proliferate here in utmost freedom.
>
> So is it yea or nay to off topic posting? What say you?
>



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