[OT] Re: Problem with awk using shell variables

Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <cqcd1m$bi9@netnews.proxy.lucent.com>,
> Ed Morton  <morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote:
> 
>
> You will be off-topic, and I shall not be shy about telling you so, in the
> hope, infinitessimal though it may be, that someday, someway, you will see
> the error of your ways.

That's silly; the whole thread is off-topic - *now*.

Janis

In article <cqf14t$nn2$1@online.de>,
Janis Papanagnou  <Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Kenny McCormack wrote: 
>
>That's silly; the whole thread is off-topic - *now*.
>
>Janis

It is always held that discussions of topicality are always on-topic.
That is to prevent exactly this sort of silly regress - the OTs telling the
people trying to keep things on-topic that they are OT.

Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <cqf14t$nn2$1@online.de>,
> Janis Papanagnou  <Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>
>
> It is always held that discussions of topicality are always on-topic.
> That is to prevent exactly this sort of silly regress - the OTs telling th
e
> people trying to keep things on-topic that they are OT.
>

Would a discussion in calgary.forsale, about whether or not a post in
alabama.education is topical to the alabama.education newsgroup, be
off-topic in the calgary.forsale newsgroup?  Or is that question off-topic?

--
Regards,

---Robert

"Robert Katz" <katz@hp.com> wrote in message
news:5tFyd.4954$J04.2938@news.cpqcorp.net...
> Kenny McCormack wrote: 
the 
>
> Would a discussion in calgary.forsale, about whether or not a post in
> alabama.education is topical to the alabama.education newsgroup, be
> off-topic in the calgary.forsale newsgroup?  Or is that question
off-topic?
>

That last comment is one I would NEVER post a response to!

Rufus

(this is a test.)

Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <cqf14t$nn2$1@online.de>,
> Janis Papanagnou  <Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>
>
> It is always held that discussions of topicality are always on-topic.
> That is to prevent exactly this sort of silly regress - the OTs telling th
e
> people trying to keep things on-topic that they are OT.
>

Would a discussion in calgary.forsale, about whether or not a post in
alabama.education is topical to the alabama.education newsgroup, be
off-topic in the calgary.forsale newsgroup?  Or is that question off-topic?

--
Regards,

---Robert

In article <cqf14t$nn2$1@online.de>,
Janis Papanagnou  <Janis_Papanagnou@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Kenny McCormack wrote: 
>
>That's silly; the whole thread is off-topic - *now*.
>
>Janis

It is always held that discussions of topicality are always on-topic.
That is to prevent exactly this sort of silly regress - the OTs telling the
people trying to keep things on-topic that they are OT.