The [RUSSELL] tag already exists.  Of course, only those who receive
every post from the list will get it, but I bet if you start using it
(and other tags) then others will and eventually they may become
official merely because a lot of people are using them.

-Adam

On 3/21/07, Russell McMahon <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > It also occurs to me that your main objective is to allow for
> > dumping even
> > more off the wall posts onto the list.
>
> It may occur to you but it occurs wrongly.
> You may, but may not have noted that I mentioned [WOT] at the end as a
> joke and made no representations about it. My interest is, and always
> has been, in having something like [TECHO] to make people like
> yourself and James (not of course to mention me :-) ) happier.
>
> It's not obvious to me (as you'd expect) why my example definitions
> are unclear. They seem to me, fwiw, to be a fairly clear progression
> of
>
>     specific topics / electrical engineering / technology / other.
>
> It's not clear what's not clear about that.
>
> > Why should MIT or anyone else pay
> > for bandwidth for WOT?  That would be a bunch of useless babble
> > between
> > excessively bored get-a-lifers.  Aren't there already lots of web
> > forums for
> > Kaffee Klatsches?
>
> Don't know what relevance whatsoever that has to what I said but,
> seeing you asked, I'm surprised that anyone would pay for most of what
> goes on  on the net, and one man's worthwhile topic is another woman's
> utter waste of time, but in fact WOT, which I, you may or may not
> recall, made no representations about whatsoever, would probably help
> keep troublesome subjects further away from the technical threads. We
> could for example relegate to it all baiting of newcomers to the list,
> abuse of people for having opinions that differ from somebody else's,
> mentions of deceased marine creatures and states of lunar occultation,
> and thereby improve overall list harmony immensely.
>
> > [RUSSEL] - Brief discussion and links to the dregs from recent web
> > surfing.
>
> That would be [RUSSELL] to you (or [MR RUSSELL] if you prefer).
> Try them, you'll like them. You'll find that almost any of my 'dregs'
> that appear under [EE] are liable to improve your horizons and mental
> capacity for new thought. Those under [OT] maybe not :-)
>
>
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