Re: OT: Disappointing...

Paul Bennett wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:12:53 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>
>> Iain E. Davis wrote:
>>
>>> Conlang List Members,
>>>
>>> I've been sick for a week, and busy before that, and now I return
>>> to...something terrible...
>>
>>
>> Actually, it's always been like this.  I suggest, if you don't want to
>> see OT posts, filter them out.
>
>
> It isn't always quite as off-topic as some of the recent threads. Do we
> digress? Yes. To the extent demonstrated recently? Very rarely. Is it
> annoying when it happens? I suspect almost universally.
>
Not quite to the extent here, no.  But it's not *that* much more
off-topic than normal.  And if it is too off-topic, does it really
matter, so long as we tag our posts (if we don't, then we have a
problem)?  I agree with the rest of what youre saying, though.