No Happy medium?

[Samw]

Hi all.

I think the way that everything was handled was fine. The original message was not deleted. This means that everyone can read it and respond to the poster by Email. At the same time, the thread was closed so that no further off-topic replies would clutter the board. It was a fair compromise on both sides I thought.

In my opinion, it is easy now to get off topic and not have the board suffer because this board is currently small and traffic is light. However, in larger boards, off topic posts waste a lot of time for people who only want to read about the topics at hand. As members grow, there will always be groups with similar interests. It won't be long before people start talking about cars, computer games, computer viruses, Canucks, wars, night clubs, jokes, beautiful women, or what have you.

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