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Message no. 1
From: Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
Subject: [OT POST FLAME] Re: Stop The Insanity!!
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:06:56 -0800
>OK, who started this whole age survey in the first place? If you want to
>do a survey, fine. But responses should got to a private e-mail address,
>not the list where they just clutter up my mailbox. Remember, you might
>want to know this stuff, but I, like most of this list's members, don't
>care!

Well, sorry. Some people do care, though.

>And another thing, don't post stuff on the list unless somebody besides
>your friends, who are only a small percentage of the list's members,
>cares. For example: I don't care if it's your birthday, I don't care
>about your trip to Gen-Con, and I don't care if you just (re)joined the
>list. And you don't need to re-send a person's message with a stupid
>remark at the end.
>
>Just remember that the primary purpose of this list is to discuss Shadowrun.

I've never really seen you post much, and from your lack of having
"common sense" to hit return after about 70-80 chars, you're not much
better for flaming us on the list. This list is for Shadowrun, but
the fact is, as people grow to know each other and make friends, social
chatter is inevitable. Just the plain fact of it, there will always be
OT posting, you'll just have to deal with it.

Maybe you're just mad because nobody talks to YOU and that pisses you
off. You wouldn't mind if everyone was talking about your life, would
you?
-Skye
Message no. 2
From: David Hinkley <dhinkley@***.ORG>
Subject: Re: [OT POST FLAME] Re: Stop The Insanity!!
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:51:51 +0000
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:06:56 -0800
> From: Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
> Subject: [OT POST FLAME] Re: Stop The Insanity!!

[SNIP]

> This list is for Shadowrun, but
> the fact is, as people grow to know each other and make friends, social
> chatter is inevitable. Just the plain fact of it, there will always be
> OT posting, you'll just have to deal with it.

Well Said.

While the OT clutter may become a bit annoying at time. It does make the
list a lot frendlier and makes accedental social faux pas easer to
recover from. Which in turn benefits the list by reducing flame wars.



David Hinkley
dhinkley@***.org

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Those who are too intelligent to engage in politics
are punished by being governed by those who are not
--Plato

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