Re: Don't mean to offend, but...

 --- João Ricardo Oliveira skrzypszy:

> Marking it OT is really nice, but it doesn't make the message disappear from
> my server. I still have to download it.
No, you don't. Please go to http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html,
and choose option 3 (Join or leave the list, or change setting). Here you have
the possibility to disable the delivery of messages with tags like CHAT and OT.
Of course, not all off-topic threads are marked as such, but it might help at
little, at least.

> Joe, I don't have problem with off-topic mesages. I do have a problem with OT
> threads taking over the group, and this is what happened this past week. I
> obviously cannot - and don't want to - impose my opinion on the group, but I
> do want to share it.
There's nothing wrong with that. I think most of us get frustrated from time to
time with the huge amount of OT messages. And of course, there is the somewhat
worrying phenomenon that off-topic messages tend to provoke more response than
conlang-related posts.
On the other hand, for someone who spends hours a day reading Conlang messages
and replying to them, it can sometimes be important to get a better impression
of the "person behind the conlanger", and OT messages are undoubtedly helpful
here.

Jan

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