Re: [OT] Off-topic posts

[Ognen D <ognen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 22 August 2008 00:31:08 Roy Lanek wrote:
> > You can never avoid OT posts, and I wouldn't say they have no value in
> > general. I prefer some (few) of these discussions happening off-topic
> > than not happening at all.
>
> Good to see that you have begun to understand that, though one can't of
> course pretend that it must happen on command or within ... *topological*
> limits.
>
> Because ...
>
> > I bet it's easier to convince people to use a [OT] tag than to convince
> > them not to post OT-mails at all, but prove me wrong.
>
> Wrong. What may [OT] for person A, may not be so for person B. (And vice
> versa: B's [OT] is [O'T] for A .... where [O'T] is: On-Topic; and [OT] or
> [O'T] are not connected to: selling stuff X, injecting advertising, and
> similar.)
>
> /Roy Lanek
>
> PS
>
> [AC] tags (for auto-censure) belong to the same *family* of [OT] tags.
> With time they become [psychoanalysis] *interiorized*, 2nd *nature* so to
> speak--which is very bad--and goes even against Tor's goals.
>
> This tagging idea remembers me newspeak very much.


Please stop abusing everyone on this list. You have made it impossible for us 
to follow it by turning it into everything but "tor". You should be banned 
from posting so you can go elsewhere and find someone else you can pour your 
psycho babble on.

Thanks,
Ognen