Re: [Thinkpad] OT: E-mail formatting & Jeffreys use of the list

I'd like to associate myself with the sentiments of James, Stephen and
Rob .. while I understand also the viewpoint of keeping to the narrower
scope of the list. However a bit of diplomacy will help the glue of our
community ... and I personally have benefited from some of the OT
excursions of Jeffrey and others.

 From the peanut gallery

Frank K-F
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Rob Bell wrote:
> 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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