> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominic Stratten [SMTP:sales@picparts.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:01 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT]:Formatting a 80GB Hard Drive
>
> I second this comment - I think we should keep the bandwidth available for
> the Piclist for Pic related (or very similar) discussions. I'm not
> knocking
> Salah for his post - there's been a lot of OT posting recently but I think
> we should respect the Piclist for what it is and keep it relevant.
>
> By veering off target, we're using bandwidth, clogging up peoples inboxes,
> wasting storage space on the Piclist server and adding to search times,
> indexing times etc.
>
> Some of the off target stuff is interesting but does not warrant 30-40
> witty
> replies (funny as some of them are ;-)
>
> Please please please think twice before posting off target or adding your
> 2
> cents worth ( I'm just as guilty as the rest of you ).
>
> Any one else want to back me up ?????
>
> Cheers
>
> Dominic
>
No.  This is exactly WHY the tagging system was created.  You don't even
have to do the filtering on your own mail client if you just instruct the
list server to stop sending OT tagged mails.  It was decided some time ago
that this was preferable to banning all OT threads.

Regards

Mike

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