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Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:35:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > Scott, would this have helped?
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> Anything which keeps marmite off my screen helps. ;-)
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> For the record, I really am in favour of compartmentalisation and all that.
> However, I am also aware that it tends to fragment threads (especially if one
> read via a news reader). If I thought my post would start a long rambling
> thread about marmite (or some other nonsense) I would not have posted it, or I
> would have moved it elsewhere. As my post was a straight answer to a straight
> question, I did not even think about it - my apologies to all read it:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/lego/direct/?n=733
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> However, to be honest I'm a little bemused as to how this has reached
> admin.general & how I got e-mailed about by big brother about it. It may be
> that, unbeknown to me, the "LUGNET POLICE" are back to enforce the ToU - but
> I really hope not, as I do not what to see admin.general swamped with reports
> of seemingly malicious off-topic posts. Before anyone quotes the group's
> charter at me and tells me that Brad reads that group, I ask this - what is
> worse to the casual observer: me answering a straight question or James
> Brown's retort?
The casual observer usually isn't reading adminstrivia, so won't see my
retort - which, by the way, wasn't specifically targeted at you, or even at
the (3 or so?) off-topic messages in the specific thread I replied. I've
noticed a fair amount of off-topicicity(?) in .lego.direct, including
arguments about being on-topic.
I was asking a serious question, specifically about the .lego.direct group,
since the injuction for all .lego groups(1) appears insufficient to keep
people on target.
Rereading what I wrote, it is fairly snide, and I apologize for that - I had a
nasty day at work yesterday, and took some of it out on you.
But the question still stands - Is there a server-side solution that can be
done (less snidely than my original suggestion) to keep .lego.direct
relatively free from off-topicity?
James
1:seen here, in the 'read this before posting' bit:
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/
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