The Logic Off Topic list

Hi all,

What a waste of time having to argue concerning the OT list. My 
personal views on this are the following:

1. I often rather enjoy reading people's opinions about current 
non-music topics, there are times I trash almost all the rest, simply 
because no music related problems which interest me at that time are 
being dealt with.

2. The number of way-OT emails on the OT list is very low compared to 
music-related OT emails. In times of heavy way-OT load on the list, 
if you want to trash these emails, then the total amount of time you 
have to spend to do this probably is less then 15 seconds a day.

3. There are too many, in my opinion, respected and long standing 
members of this list who regularly have interesting non-music related 
discussions, for me to want to stop them from doing that, and neither 
should the moderators.

4. The job of being a moderator is tough. These members, without a 
doubt, are doing a great job and for this they deserve our thanks and 
respect. However, having said this, it is also such that they do not 
represent us, and as such they should not be making or changing list 
policy unless there is a clear list-consensus. Unless a majority of 
list members cast their vote, one can question whether the outcome 
has any meaning at all.

In view of all this, and unless there is a majority vote against, I 
would like the OT-list to remain completely free.

Not wanting to spend too much time on this, I typed the above 
practically in one go. Sorry if there is any inconsistency, it is 
just my gut feeling.

Cheers,  Bob
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Bob Lowen
Antwerp, Belgium

Email: rlow@...