OT: off-topic

Fernando Pérez fperez528 at yahoo.com
Thu May 23 01:35:29 EDT 2002


Greg Ewing wrote:

> Why stop at a Python-specific solution? Off-topic
> postings are a problem in all newsgroups, so I
> propose a single group:
> 
>    news.off-topic
> 
> for all off-topic posts on any subject. The only
> trouble is that, in that group, off-topic posts
> would be on topic, and therefore not suitable
> for news.off-topic... excuse me, my brain is
> about to explode...
> 

Very nice :) Basically you got the Russell paradox (more or less), which 
turned set theory on its head at the turn of the century.

Cheers,

f.



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