[101230] in RedHat Linux List
Re: , and other animals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael George)
Wed Nov 25 09:42:49 1998
From: Michael George <george@mintcity.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811242337420.10966-100000@winbuster.magic.fr> from Zoki at "Nov 24, 1998 11:46:11 pm"
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:39:36 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: george@mintcity.com
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> Over the last few months I have witnessed the acceptance of my proposition
> to mark off topic subjects, thus allowing people not interested to set a
> procmail filter. However, it seems that there is a bit of anarchy
> developing concerning the tag to be used. I thought <OFF> was widely
> accepted. While the Caldera list uses <TID> *systematically* - that's
> where I got the idea from - our list has shown a lot of creativity by
> using a different tag for each off topic subject.
>
> ####### Would it help if I launched a last request to accept the tag <OFF>
> as the only one to be used when marking off topic subjects!?? Otherwise,
> the whole procedure will be useless and quite annoying. ########
I don't want to set a filter to trash the off topic posts, but I do like them
tagged to give me a hint that they might be off-topic. I generally will still
glance at the rest of the subject to see if I might be interested.
So, for me, the variety of tags is acceptable, as long as they are
regognizable. "Off" "OT" and "Off Topic" are pretty understandable, but I
wouldn't immediately guess what "TID" or "TIOT" mean...
Just my $0.02...
-Michael
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