The Logic Off Topic list

Barb <beatgirl_@...> wrote:

> You get to see a snippet of people's personalities when it goes OT, things
> you can't get from the usual 'reinstall the driver and then restart' kinda
> posts...

Even if I usually stopped replying to such posts (hm, knowing that I might
bother 3500+ people with EVERY letter I type can be a hard thing...) I
couldn't agree more - personally I really like those OT mails at times, I
just know that some (highly valuable) people allready left the list because
of the too high amount of OT and/or flaming/spamming on this list (the
average amount of mails from this list seems to be quite above 100/day these
days), that's why I usually don't reply at all (even if the "boring as my
wife" thread could start a very interesting discussion - hm, too bad my
english isn't too good, maybe that's another reason for me not to reply...).
But, as said, suddenly you can see a person behind the lines (well,
sometimes you can...).

Finally, why don't people interested in a nice (or NOT so nice...) OT
discussion take it to the LUG-OT?
I mean, it's simply impossible to discuss such threads in private as others
might want to jump in or so, it's also impossible to start or enter a
seperate list for all OT threads, but that's what the OT list is for (at
least for a certain amount of time...).
My reply is gonna be CCed there as well...

Cheers,
Sascha