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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Mike Stanley writes:
> The thing that bothers me most about the constant punning in .fun is
> that it's not obvious that it is going on until I've wasted my time by
> beginning to read a thread. A thread that looks like it is about
> t-shirts, plates, K-mart sales, what have you, turns out to really be
> about puns, 12 or 15 messages of nothing but puns.
>
> Right now, if people want to skip geeky stuff, it's pretty easy to do
> by skipping threads like "Linux works?" "My new P2-400", etc.
But doesn't that make geeky posts easier to identify? Yet I guess the problem
is that if a geeky post morphs into a punfest, that makes it hard to identify.
Maybe it's better netiquette (that I need to practice) to change the subject
to be a better reflector of content? Note that often people change a subject
line to "foo-foo (was Re: glorp)".
How much extra work is it to change a subject line vs. a followup-to? In the
event that .off-topic.pun is not formed, I think this might be a good idea.
LMKWYT
-Tom McD.
when reply, please glorp the spamcake.
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