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[John A Swartz]

>As far as the "religion vs. rock 'n' roll" thread, it was clearly marked
"OFF:", but maybe you don't want to learn how to set filters on boc-l.


Keep in mind that the OFF filter is not a license for us to post whatever
we want to BOC-L.  Our moderator will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong,
but I believe that it is "supposed" to be used for either sort of one-time
off-topic postings, or topics which aren't related to BOC/HW/related, but
presumably still have some relevance (one can argue that the "religion
vs rock" thread is therefore a legit off-topic topic) -- but it's also
my understanding that OFF topic discussions should in general should not
be extended discussions (which the "religion vs rock" thread clearly turned
into).

I'm not trying to be heavy-handed here - I'm just posting my interpretation
of the rules we are expected to play by.  In particular with the OFF topic,
I think a lot of us don't want to "turn off" the OFF topic filter because
we stand to miss something substantial, but don't expect our mail to be
dominated by OFF topic stuff.

John