I have a novel idea. How about a recreational metalworking group for talking about metalworking. Off topic discussions are not a problem with a group that has a dozen posts a day, but this group has over three hundred a day. It is getting too hard to seperate the wheat from the chaff!

Point taken. From my own early experience, I found this group before buying a mill, and decided not to post here because of the noise level. Yahoo groups have not worked for me for some time (somebody added me to a particiular group and that was it), so I couldn't get to the mill-drill forum, and finally posted here as a "last resort". The merrits of the group were soon obvious, but I wonder how many others are scared off.One option might be to charter a or something like that, and gently encourage the truly OT stuff to go there???Now, about the Supreme Court... ;)Bill

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DoN. Nichols 20 years ago

One problem with that last one is that Outlook Express (and possibly some other software which pretends to be a newsreader, but I've only verified it on OE) take *any* two-letter pair followed by a colon ':' as being "Re:" in some language or other, strips it off, and replaces it with its own "Re:". I've seen it happen *many* times in this newsgroup.

So -- something other than "OT:" is needed. Perhaps "[OT]" will work well enough, and not be wiped off branches of the thread map by anyone replying with OE as a newsreader.

Enjoy, DoN.

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jim rozen 20 years ago

Agreed. But you are again making the mistake that being a consumate polictican means one is smart. Sometimes those are kinda skew line sort of things. They amost meet, but not quite....

Jim

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Dave Hinz 20 years ago

You have _got_ to be kidding. (said in an amazed, WTF were they thinking kind of a way, not in a "I don't believe you, DoN" kind of way)

Maybe we just nuke Redmond from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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steamer 20 years ago

--LOL! Good one, heh. Step #1 for anyone using usenet: lose the click-click-click-web-mouse interface and go for a text-only keyboard interface.

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jim rozen 20 years ago

Hey, you're the mayor.

I think though second prize is being the mayor, twice.

Jim

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