[meteorite-list] Offtopic Filter

From: Art <blurtheline_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 07:34:48 -0700
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Hi Sergei;

One of the drawbacks of an non-moderated mailing list is that off
topic threads can be started and continued (until the admin
intervenes). Personally though I think that some of these off topic
posts can provide an interesting slant to the list. Also many feel
that there is some level of subjectivity in "on/off topic" so you need
to be cognizant of that. If things start to get out of hand, I
intervene when I feel it's necessary.

As Jim mentioned it is usually pretty straight forward to add a
filtering rule to your email client to filter these messages (if the
poster used "OT" or "Off topic" in the subject line).

Best Regards, Art


On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Becky and Kirk <bandk at chorus.net> wrote:
>
> Come on now---from what I see, posts are almost always indeed on topic, but if something interesting in the conversation leaks in, people can always still press DELETE.
>
> Kirk......
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Loeffler" <bobl at peaktopeak.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 9:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Offtopic Filter
>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> I think Sergei was trying to make a point. ?:-) ?There are too many people
>> on this list who do stray from the topic of meteorites. ?NASA going after an
>> ex-astronaut to get an old camera back has NOTHING to do with meteorites.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Jim
>> Wooddell
>> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 1:43 PM
>> To: Sergei Schmalz
>> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Offtopic Filter
>>
>> Sergei,
>>
>> Most email clients, both online and computer based, such as Outlook,
>> etc. have just what you ask for. ?You might try looking at your own
>> filters.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jim Wooddell
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Sergei Schmalz <sergiuspro at yahoo.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> Please, could we have a filter, which, when switched on for a particular
>>
>> subscribed user, would filter out all offtopic non-meteorite messages
>> (marked, say, by OT)? It's becoming a big daily burden to have to delete
>> manually or even look through all these massive offtopic messages coming
>> into my email box. Come on, I really dont have a need of NASA suing someone
>> for a camera or Crabs out there on a METEORITE list! There's a plenty of
>> other astronomy discussion boards and lists for that purpose.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> With best regards
>>> Sergei Schmalz
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