While I am new to this group of fora, I am a twenty-year veteran of boards, BBSs, newsgroups, etc. I am a great fan of the chaos of ideas that spill out of unmoderated, high-spirited, good-willed discussions. I have a history of displaying my fascination with words in a vulgar fashion (is it possible to be both coarse and erudite at the same time?), but have out-grown participation except for the most irresistible of straight lines. I think Max's suggestion of prefixing the subject line with "non-word stuff" or the like for divergent posts is the most practical policy.


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