Date   : Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:13:26 +0000
From   : tom@... (Tom Seddon)
Subject: Ban off-topic posts

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:13:13 +0000, adam colley
<hideki.adam@...> wrote:

>Heh
>
>On 21 November 2010 11:00, John Kortink <kortink@...> wrote:
>> Um, could we have a vote on completely banning off-topic
>> posts ?
>> My BBC mailing list folder is starting to approach the
>> uselessness of my spam folder, with messages from people
>> who are similarly mentally and morally challenged.
>> This amount of pub waffle is getting ridiculous. Let's
>> ban it, and ban persistent violators from the list.
>
>Or perhaps you could restrict yourself to behaving like a jumped up
>little Hitler on your own mailing list instead of trying to change
>this one which you do not afaik have anything to do with the running
>of.

A vote is a fair approach.

I'm not interested in the OT stuff. It's just a distraction. If
traffic were lower in its absence, I wouldn't see that as a problem
that needs solving. 

--Tom