Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:06:22 -0500, "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 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? IMO, If it is "on-topic" posts you are loking for.... this is place to come. If however, you are looking for: (to paraphrase your statement) "the original Arachne anarchy of letting a thousand topics proliferate in utmost freedom" Then _this_ is the place to go: http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ That is after-all the sole reason for its existance. :)) -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --