On Mon, 22 May 2006, Michael Bennett wrote:

> That's not the point - I wasn't offended by the jokes,
> so much as they were lame and not funny and didn't
> really add to the discussion of pop music.  The
> solution of hitting the delete button doesn't work, if
> the heading doesn't indicate a tasteless unfunny joke
> is coming -- maybe this could be indicated in the
> subject line...

Do we need to slap a warning label on everything now? How much damage does
one *really* suffer by "having" to read an offensive joke, let alone one
that's merely tasteless and unfunny and not about pop music?

Hence....the delete key. (I mean, I suppose we could add [OT] to all
not-entirely-on-topic posts, but..)