[CW] Captain Kangaroo

[Ed Tanton]

Nothing what-so-ever to do with CW, nothing at all Andrew... that's what 
the preface "OT" means. You did read that didn't you? You know: "Off 
Topic". Perhaps you should take better care to notice what is in a given 
title.

Even if it DID turn out to be yet another urban legend, I found it 
interesting just to know Lee Marvin was a Marine, and that he is buried in 
Arlington.

Of course, that's the point in having an accepted practice that most people 
follow and recognize. If one sees the letters "OT" one has the OPTION of 
NOT reading the message. If, on the other hand, one DOES accept the option, 
and read the message, one still might not find it interesting, but that 
goes with the territory when an email title is labelled with "OT: FWD: 
Captain Kangaroo" as mine did; and begins with: "I know this is totally 
OT... " as mine did.

As manager of this list, I do not ENCOURAGE "OT" remarks, but then, I do 
not DISCOURAGE them particularly either. You just never know when one might 
be interesting. If they are off-color, or rude, I can-as manager-deal with 
that. If they are sufficiently inane that I feel they REALLY weren't called 
for, I will-courteously I hope-PRIVATELY suggest to the 'author' that 
perhaps they didn't belong on [CW]. If they are simply not interesting to 
me, I just keep my mouth shut.

Does that answer your question?

///snip
At 11:52 PM 2002-11-10, Andrew wrote:
>What on earth does this have to do with CW??

///snip


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