[Nottingham] EU Software Patent Legislation: new topic available on new LUG web page.

[Michael Whitby]

David Aldred wrote:

> In message <20040513165526.GA5604 at sapphire.jimbo.org.uk>, James Green 
> <jkg at jimbo.org.uk> writes
>
>> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:35:34PM +0100, Martin Garton wrote:
>>
>>> I have created a new topic. Lets take the discussion there.
>>
>>
>> Does it offer anything over a mailing list discussion? I can't speak for
>> others in general, but I'm confident I'm not alone here in much
>> preferring discussions on a mailing list to on some random web forum.
>
>
> Easy answer: prefix off-topic stuff with [OT].  Anyone wanting to 
> avoid such stuff just filters mail with subject lines starting 
> [Nottingham][OT] to their e-wastebasket.
>
> (Personally, I far prefer mailing lists to web forums too, and for 
> essentially the same reasons.)


sounds like a good plan, personally my inbox is filling up to the brim 
with all this eu software talk. I'm not sayng it should be dsicussed (i 
myself have mailed my MP regarding it), but its a bit off putting when i 
dont have much time to read all my mail when there are 20 new items!