Well I must admit to finding some hilarious moments in this current thread
and am against imposing on Jay the onerous and unthankfull job of
censorship of non-commercial OT threads, I must also agree that these OT
messages do compromise the integrity of the list. Anyone who has tried
extracting usefull info from eg: the Fido Rainbow archives and experienced
sorting thru the frustrating rants and OT discussions that went on, would do
well to remember those who follow. They won't give a damn about some minor
former pres. of these United States. A little self-restraint would go a long way.
Oh, and I'm baaack !! - after completing an arduous move of most of my
collection to my retirement home in the boonies of north-central Manitoba.
Lawrence
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Sipke de Wal wrote:
>
> > Howevermuch i would like more moderation on the list.....
> >
> > It will be a pity for future social scientists who will thus be deprived of an
> > unexhaustible source of raw (un)social data ;)
> >
> > Does all the OT-static end up in the archives too ?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. And think about it this way: future hobbyists,
> historians and researches will have to wade through 50 off-topic and out
> of context messages before they find that ONE message that actually
> contains the information they were looking for.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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