On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:44:22 -0600, you wrote:
>
>The initial quoted comment ("I was told the Hungarians
>invented...") didn't seem to be referring to Gore at all, but
>rather Brust.
>
>The response ("... stop listning to Al Gore") was IMHO a
>misreading of the original comment and an inappropriate
>politicization.
>
>The response to that ("I know it's off topic, but...") was
>similarly inappropriate for the political content, and more
>annoying to me personally (because it contains some things that
>I would dispute and don't like to leave unchallenged).
>
>But I will resist.
On usenet, the standard practise is to put an OT: in the subject.
Would that not be a good thing to start here, so that people could
filter on OT: and avoid threads that are possibly controversial?
Although I'm keen on keeping the controversial stuff out, myself.
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lazarus