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- From: bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: ok, let me try this again
- Message-ID: <BxK1nE.8KB@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 14:02:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.180920.29554@Princeton.EDU>
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
- Lines: 36
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- spencer@shine.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
-
- >Yes, I am trying to change things. Yes, I am trying to exclude certain
- >types of conversation from soc.motss.
-
- >... what started this off was a message from John Dorrance. [...]
- >>What's the stupidest/lamest/strangest song lyric you know of?
- >>('I feel drunk', 'let's look for the purple banana 'til they put
- >>us in the truck')
-
- >IMHO, soc.motss should be for gay-related conversations. I interpret
- >that to mean conversations which, in substance, are gay-related. This
- >article by Mr. Dorrance does not strike me as falling into this
- >category.
-
- The day I read John's 'lyrics' posting I was feeling particularly depressed
- about M9, and I really appreciated the opportunity to change the subject
- with some campy fun. So you can never tell what is, or is not, going
- to be gay-related. IMO the only thing that should be off-limits is
- homophobic drivel crossposted by bullies reading from talk.politics.misc.
-
- >I'd further like to point out that kill files are not an option here.
- >Firstly, I refuse to put people in my kill file. I only put subjects in
- >it. And secondly, there is no way to anticipate the subject of every
- >message that I consider to be off-topic because there are an infinite
- >number of them.
-
- I suggest using nn instead of rn if your system supports it. That way you
- read only what you want and can 'sample' threads in the middle to see if
- the subject agrees with the header and if it interests you. I never use
- kill files out of principle, but those fun-loving Optilink guys sorely tempt
- me sometimes.
- --
- Brent Capps | Shackles and handcuffs
- bcapps@agora.rain.com (gay stuff) | and bullwhips that sting
- bcapps@atlastele.com (telecom stuff) | these are a few of my favorite things
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