Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

[Bob Young]

Joe Menola wrote:
> On Saturday 30 September 2006 3:38 pm, Bob Young wrote:
>
>> Uhhhh.....if you have some desire to discuss the "original topic" is
>> there something that prevents you from either replying to a message
>> without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message
>> with a subject indicating what you want to talk about?
>>
>
> Uhhh, no there isn't. Nor is there anything preventing someone from attaching
> a reply to your rambling.
>
Are you suggesting there should be something?

It sounds like your a fan of censorship and prefer rules to always be 
strictly enforced with zero tolerance for any deviation.

> This thread was high-jacked, and now the burden should move to those who post
> according the rules?
>
Actually a more accurate description might be that it was forked, as the 
subject line was modified differentiating it from the original, and 
there was certainly nothing to prevent anyone from replying to the 
original message/thread and carrying on with a discussion of the 
original topic.

> I'm finished contributing to the mess...feel free to break the rules, I'll
> work around it.
>
Sorry, I just honestly don't see the any cause of major inconvenience or 
damage  (aka "mess") here. I'm sure that there must be examples of 
threads that were completely "on topic" but you personally were not 
interested in, obviously you dealt with those threads in some fashion. 
Why is it so difficult to deal with the occasional OT thread the same 
way, especially when it's clearly marked?

It's not like the list is overrun with OT threads, nor do I see any 
indication that the list is likely to be overrun with OT messages in the 
future.

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Bob Young
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