My 2 cents (value = 0.002 these days):
If an off-topic question is posted as such and the poster is happy to
receive off-list replies then I'm all for tolerating a few of them. If
you don't want to read them then don't. I've been known to tap the
collective list knowledge for off-topic and semi-related issues myself.
If or when off-topic posts turn into high-volume discussions or
degenerate into debates then they need to be curtailed.
As with most situations like this, we'll probably waste more bandwidth
debating and discussing this point than if we would have just left it
alone. In the overall scheme of things they end up helping someone and
obviously there are people on the list that enjoy helping so don't make
a big deal of it.
Rob
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