RE: Staying on topic (polite, plaintive plea)

[Tom Robertson xywrite@xxxxxxxx]

Eric Van Tassel:

Hear, Hear!
		(Never said that before)

Re off subject discussions. People who use XyWrite do so because it works
for them and they are not bound to the writing tools of the thundering
herd. And that work is mainly thinking and expressing ideas in words. To
me, this means XyWrite users have ideas that may be interesting aside from
word processsing.

So I say, have at it, with proper Subject identification so readers can
separate the talk from the tech.

TR...

On Thursday, November 27, 1997 3:19 AM, Eric Van Tassel
[SMTP:101233.342@xxxxxxxx] wrote:
> As I've had occasion to say before, of all the lists I belong to this one
> is the most useful; it also tends, even in moments of political
heatedness,
> to be the most civil.
>
> But aren't there other communities on the Net where the problems of
> advancing technology, planned obsolescence, et hoc genus omne are
> discussed? Not to mention Left vs. Right? And dear old Ayn Rand?
>
> If any of my esteemed colleagues [is there an emoticon or acronym for Not
> Sarcastic? -- if so, please insert it here] do want to go on discussing
> these and other issues with us rather than with some other group, I
> encourage them to continue; but in that case can they please change the
> subject lines when the topic veers?
>
> Amicably,
> Eric Van Tassel