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Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:35:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> 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?
His retort was, at least, posted to the proper group.
> So have we now to report all off-topic posts to admin.general?
No, nothing compels you to, but if you're annoyed by an off-topic post, this is
the place to say something about it.
Instead of getting all bent out of shape when someone points out that you're
posting in the wrong place, and crying about the "LUGNET POLICE", and trying to
make as though people are being overly anal-retentive because they point it
out, you'd be better off acknowledging (silently, to yourself, in your head)
that you may have broken the ToS that you agreed to when you signed up for
posting privs to Lugnet, that those ToS are in place for a good reason, and
that someone was annoyed enough by your off-topic post to actually say
something about it, and letting it go at that.
I don't think that your marmite references were particularly hurtful to the
integrity of lugnet.lego.direct or anything, but they were off-topic, and
making snide remarks about it when people point that out *certainly* doesn't
help the situation. Accept that it was a faux pas, however minor, and move on
with your life. Have a big plate of haggis or something. I've never had
Marmite, but as repulsive national dishes go...
eric
PS Well, ok, haggis isn't actually that bad, if you can manage to forget what
you're actually putting in your mouth.
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| (...) retort? (...) is (...) to (...) Just to interject, I am the one who brought the discussion to its off-topic status. The original marmite comment was in a post script that Scott wrote in an on-topic message. (...) ^ ^ ^ ^ A post script just (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) lugnet.lego.direct, (...) Anything which keeps marmite off my screen helps. ;-) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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