RE: A86: [OT] Staying on-topic.

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RE: A86: [OT] Staying on-topic.


I like that idea a lot.  I would be a lot less likely to take action against
a person who posts off-topic if he labeled his messages as such.  But that
doesn't count other ticalc.org staff members...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> [mailto:owner-assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of David Phillips
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 1999 11:01 PM
> To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: A86: [OT] Staying on-topic.
>
>
>
> Funny how less than two hours before you sent this, you posted a message
> with the subject "IP's, e-mail, forgery, and more.. Got your attention
> yet?".  Just wondered if anyone else noticed that besides me.  And if you
> want people to reply to you and not the list, why not send it to
> the people
> you feel are off-topic and not the whole list?  That's how _I_ feel.
>
> I have a suggestion that is used on other lists and seems to work well.
> Now, I realize that this list consists of mostly high school/middle school
> students, where as other lists consist of college graduates/professional
> programmers, but I'd like to think that we could still maintain some
> maturity.
>
> In the subject of messages, the category of the message can be enclosed in
> braces [].  For example, this message contained [OT] standing for "off
> topic".  Which means, if you are looking at a long list of
> messages, you can
> simply delete anything that contains [OT] in the header if you
> don't want to
> read it.  Or, setup your mailer to delete anything containing that
> automatically so it doesn't waste 5 seconds of your time to do it
> yourself.
>
> If I have offended anyone, I apologize.  Anyone interested in putting
> together a graphics demo contest?
>
> > I don't mean to be rude, but could everyone stick to the topic of 86-
> > ASM? This list was created and maintained for people to learn about
> > assembly for the TI-86. Am I not correct? If you do have a 'happy
> [snip]
> > for a christian mailing list. So, please stay on topic and make my
> > over-all mailing list experience more enjoyable. Yes, I do realize
> > that this is off-topic, but I felt it needed to be addressed. If you
> > have a reply for me, send it to andycool1@hotmail.com, not the list.
>
>
>
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