From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk
In message <1nptbp0.10dy9j41vmnd4aN%nemo@erewhon.invalid>, John Hill
writes:
>Charles Ellson wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 15:49:32 +0100, Jon Green
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On 23/05/2018 20:33, Charles Ellson wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 23 May 2018 00:32:59 -0700 (PDT), adymbbt@gmail.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Robert Garrard (1794) of Garrard and Co, at one time Royal Jewellers
>> >>>lived at Woodfield Lodge, Streatham.
>> >>>
>> >> How nice for him.
>> >
>> >Bit uncalled-for? It was, after all, on topic.
>> >
>> Jewellers and Streatham are not on topic.
>
>So far as I am concerned, where people lived and what they did for a
>living *are* part of their family history.
>
Agreed. The problem here is not so much off-topic, as the usual problem
of a gmail user (yes, it doesn't apply to all such) encountering an old
thread, and adding to it, often without quoting any date and thinking
they're not posting but emailing. As "john1@" discovered for us, this is
a thread from 2007.
Can I urge others _not_ to respond _here_ to such posts: the original
gmail poster (adymbbt@gmail.com in this case) _won't_ see your response,
and it just wastes the time of the rest of us; if you must respond,
reply to poster.
I'm afraid I've set a kill rule on @gmail.com posts; I'm sorry to the
few savvy such users, but it keeps my blood pressure down. Except that I
do see the followups.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
... basically it's another language and unless you've studied it, it's
difficult to grasp. I know people get outraged at me saying it, but it's only
my opinion. I'm not telling people who adore Shakespeare to stop adoring it
this minute. - Jane Horrocks, in Radio Times 30 July - 5 August 2011
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