Michael "Dog3" wrote:

> Maybe you can enlighten me. I'm certainly not being critical so please
> don't take it that way. Can you tell me why you would read an OT thread
> and then proceed to make an OT post in said thread disapproving of OT
> posts? I will probably never understand why people feel the need to voice
> disapproval of posts clearly marked OT. Thread drift to OT is a
> completely other topic IMO.
>
Maybe you can enlighten me, too? WHY do people post feel a need to clog
up a cooking/food group by posting jokes, current events, political or
religious topics,yada yada yada, in the first place? Do they not have
real people in their lives to discuss these issues with? Or do they
think others haven't read the news also? Why not take that stuff to a
more appropriate group? Or send it via email to those of the same ilk.
I truly believe the preponderance of initiated off topic threads (versus
thread drift) has chased away too many serious posters and left us with
a glut of sad, lonely people who use RFC for their entire social life.
What makes deliberate off topic posts any different from spam then?