[oclug] RE: OT: sprawl

[dean linford]

Chris Herrnberger oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca 
>On August 1, 2001 09:43 pm, you wrote:
>> If the "OT" tagging were done "right", I wonder if the

Perhaps I should have said "done right", not ``done "right"''?

>> list would deal with passing it properly in replies.
>> Especially if the user had set up some mechanism to
>> pump them through different streams on thier side...
>>
>> detail, details,....
>>
>Some months back we all agreed that the following would be used.

I wasn't talking syntax, I was talking about machines doing 
the dull, tedious, and _very_ machanical aspects of all this. 

>Subject: [OCLUG] [Off-topic] <- with the latter added by the poster.

Yes, *a user* doing what aught be the domain of *a machine*.

And if the list processor did get smart, how would whatever 
smartness is did interact with that of a user that had a 
setup which handled the mechanical details realated to the 
_semmantics_ of all this. There's more to life than syntax! 

Not that I expect it to ever get done well, but I can 
raise the issues and have that small bit of hope that 
it will mean something, to someone, somewhere... 

>Seems that this has now changed to [OT] but there does not appear to be
>concensus on this at this time..:)

Cosidering that it requires manual intervention by each 
indivdual user to set up and test "the solution", I can 
see how it all slipped back under the radar. Oh well. 

darren