From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-27 16:22:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin and other irrelevant topics Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:05:46 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <94vnon$kgj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <94s5iq$rdk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A720BAE.4060204@acm.org> <3A72D99C.D7B062B3@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Jan 28 00:05:46 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x59.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4620 Date: 2001-01-28T00:05:46+00:00 List-Id: In article <3A72D99C.D7B062B3@acm.org>, Marin David Condic wrote: > This whole thread is so far off topic, its rather amazing. You can't even > find the word "computer" in it anywhere. What surprises me is how much > interest there seems to be in Latin within this group. > > A little fun and games is understandable, but maybe this has drifted on too > long for C.L.A.? Where are the Usenet Police when you need them? :-) Marin, if you feel the need for the Usenet Police in a case like this, you are using an incompetent news reader. I changed the subject to the above, to make it perfectly easy for anyone to suppress the thread if they are not interested. If you are not able to do this, then that's surprising, any decent news reader MUST have this capability in my view. So, assuming your reader DOES have this capability, you have deliberately decided to read this thread, knowing perfectly well from the title that it cannot be relevant. You cannot possibly complain at your own decision to do this. The time that internet Police are needed is when people go off-topic WITHOUT changing the subject line. In fact you will notice that the CLA folk are very disciplined, as soon as I changed the subject line when the thread started to go irrelevant, everyone followed, and the original thread was left unaffected. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/