OT: off-topic

Ken Seehof kseehof at neuralintegrator.com
Thu May 23 08:17:15 EDT 2002


Greg wrote:
> Mark Hadfield wrote:
> > 
> > In view of the number of threads labelled OT in this group, 
> perhaps we need
> > a new group: comp.lang.python.off-topic.
> 
> Why stop at a Python-specific solution? Off-topic
> postings are a problem in all newsgroups, so I
> propose a single group:
> 
>    news.off-topic
> 
> for all off-topic posts on any subject. The only
> trouble is that, in that group, off-topic posts
> would be *on* topic, and therefore not suitable
> for news.off-topic... excuse me, my brain is
> about to explode...

And what about this message, which seeks to determine it's status
as an off-topic post.  Is this appropriate for news.off-topic?

- Ken






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