You couldn't have said it better! And I feel the same way about it too!
- Parzival
P.S. Some of you old fogies can actually write!
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Pendley" <jpendley@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT : I take exception (Was Off Topic Posts are drowning out
content)
> I'm sure every list has its etiquette. One of the charming idiosyncrasies
> of this list is that we feel free to digress. Sometimes these OT threads
> are of no interest to me. Sometimes they are. Sometimes, I even initiate
> them. It's amazing to watch a photographic topic morph into something not
> even remotely related. One of the positive and indispensable byproducts of
> such digressions is that we get to know each other better as individual
> people. It's an element of this list I would not forego to remain rigidly
> on topic, because I've made some real friends--even though I've never met
> them--among the Zuikoholics. In other words, the list is a group of
> like-minded photagraphers who also get to be pen pals. Still, I've managed
> to learn more about things Olympian and photographic than I ever could have
> on my own before the net existed; I've learned them in a short period of
> time, as well. When an OT thread has no interest for me, I can quickly
> delete posts with subject headings I've learned to recognize. That's a good
> way to keep from getting overheated because the subject seems trivial. I
> have not been enthralled by the recent fish stories, for example, but I
> don't begrudge the pleasure that some of us seemed to get from it. It's
> sort of like TV: if you don't like what you're watching, change the
> channel--or turn it off.
> Just MHO.
> John Pendley
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