[conspire] OT freekenneth.com Urgent. Please help. Thanks.
Don Marti
dmarti at zgp.org
Mon Aug 27 15:23:53 PDT 2007
begin Rick Moen quotation of Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:34:05PM -0700:
> Thus my suggested heuristic. In this case:
>
> o Brief? Not even close.
> o Infrequent? Time will tell.
> o Humour? Not.
> o Non-Annoying? Alas, probably not for most, who are here for LUG
> topics, not long political pitches.
> o Non-contentious? Possibly. Risks encouraging worse things.
How about infrequent _relative to the person's
on-topic participation in the group_? If someone
posts one message a year, and it's a Thanksgiving
greeting telling people to eat tofu instead of turkey,
that's pretty annoying.
Hey kids! OT political link! (OK, maybe not that
OT.)
http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/1342
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Don Marti
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dmarti at zgp.org
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