Re: OT: Disappointing...

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.

I myself have been guilty of some protracted and emotional flaming in
these very parts in the past (I shan't mention the subject, but Godwin was
invoked). I now see the error of my ways, and finding myself on the
outside looking in, I see exactly how much fun for onlookers it isn't.

We have shown ourselves capable of avoiding inflammatory material for
periods of months at a time. I think that's a fairly good goal to aim for,
rather than having multiple simultaneous arguments occuring at once.





Paul

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