Observe how he manages to surreptitiously slip in more off-topic rantings
while disguising it with a solution to his own very off-topic rantings.
We have an idiot savant on our hands here.
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, R. D. Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> > 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
>
> Since I got this latest off-topic mess started by commenting on how
> Bush helped Clinton ruin the economy, and, in particular, hurt workers
> in the computer field, for whom jobs are really drying up in some
> areas, I'll help to fix the OT problem: I'll start a classiccmp-ot
> mailing list, unless anyone else wants to.
>
> Of course, giving this more thought, it's all those people who
> listened to Bush about the economy being bad, and cut spending and
> hiring as a result, who deserve as much blame. I guess one could call
> it the Chicken Little syndrome, only something really did begin to
> fall eventually.
>
> Anyway, this way, anyone who wants to view off-topic postings can
> simply reply to classiccmp-ot with anything off-topic resulting from
> replies to the classiccmp list. How's that sound? Then, Jay can just
> delete, or divert to classiccmp-ot, any OT messages that slip through
> to that list, and everyone can be spared unwanted OT messages.
>
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>
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