On Tuesday 19 June 2018 17:48:52 Mike Bird wrote: > On Tue June 19 2018 17:31:18 Felix Miata wrote: > > One of my reasons to reply was to highlight the unending inane off-topic > > threads about coffee, chocolate & dinosaurs polluting this list and its > > archive. If dinosaurs are OK, then anything should go. I'd like to see OT > > stuff keep to a minimum or less. > > Agreed. Neither coffee nor distorted anti-science videos have a place > here. > > http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/377-billion-year-old-fossils-stake-n >ew-claim-oldest-evidence-life > > Chatter can help build community but maybe someone could create a > trinity-ot list so we can restore the s/n ratio here. > > --Mike Yeah, I think that we make these little offhand comments, but then it snowballs into something bigger, and soon there is an avalanche. Yet, maybe there is a place for that, since it helps us to know one another. Otherwise, it would be like talking to a customer service rep. All the same, there can be too much of a good thing, and a couple of our threads have dragged on past levity and silliness. Maybe just an OT list, where we can get silly. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
