Re: OT: A Plea (was OT everything)

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 10:32 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> I have been routinely approving overruns on a day-by-day basis, because
> once there *is* an overrun, I have to free the list or it stays stuck,
> and once it is freed there are no further complaints for the day.
        In a perfect world, upon receiving a "limit reached" email, people would
think, "Hmm, I guess there's a very chatty, and probably off-topic thread
that's consuming the list. Have I contributed more signal than noise to the
list? Maybe I should go and work on verbs now, rather than add fuel to a
pointless fire..."
        In a perfect world.
        Of course, I have a sneaking suspicion that some people go, "What? I've hit
the limit? But I MUST continue beating a dead horse! Ah, John will free up
the list soon, so I'll go ahead and pound the poor ninny!"

> I do hope the current flood (which I have been contributing to) will
> die down soon.
        Perhaps we need a ListNanny, a script (perl, if you like) that will
automatically email all respondents to a particular thread saying, "This
thread is dead! It's passed on!  This thread is no more!  It has ceased to
be!  It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff!  Bereft of life,
it rests in peace!  If you hadn't continued to flog horse meat, it would be
pushing up the daisies!" Etc. :)

> Note that it is possible to go to the Web site and block traffic
> that is flagged OT or CHAT.
        Yes, that would be nice, IF PEOPLE BOTHERED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT OF THE
MESSAGE! It's nice that (most) of the current OT threads are so marked, but
we have not been so lucky in the past, and I expect this abuse of netiquette
to continue well into the future.
        So tell me, oh List Lord, what sacrifices must I offer? (I'm running a little
low on virgins, but I've got a couple of old laptops that I need to get rid
of, will that suffice?)
        :Peter

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