Re^2: OT: xml format question (offtopic!)

(Not a Perl question, please mark OT!)

Interesting, that I recently added 'OT' to the beginning of a title on a 'Coldfusion/XML' to Perl question, and was immediately given an error msg that I violated "PM" rules. I deleted the 'OT' from the title and the thread was accepted.

Do we have to add '(offtopic)' to the end of the title?

Thank you...Ed

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

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Re^3: OT: xml format question (offtopic!) by Corion (Patriarch) on May 24, 2013 at 05:42 UTC
Adding "OT" does not make an off-topic question better. If it has no relevance to Perl, you need to give more justification why it is posted on a site named Perlmonks. Coldfusion is far outside of that, unless you need to talk to it from Perl, for example.	[reply]
Re^4: OT: xml format question (offtopic!) by flexvault (Monsignor) on May 24, 2013 at 10:55 UTC
Corion, I considered that other monks wouldn't be interested in a coldfusion to Perl question, so I marked it with 'OT:' and clicked 'create'. It was the error message that I got about violating PM rules that was the surprise. I removed the 'OT:' and the thread was accepted, which I considered strange. But, I'm not interested in 'CF' :-) Regards...Ed "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin	[reply]
Re^3: OT: xml format question (offtopic!) by LanX (Saint) on May 21, 2013 at 20:32 UTC
flexvault > and was immediately given an error msg that I violated "PM" rules really? No idea. I don't belong to any of teh special PM groups, so I can't answer this. Maybe asking at PMD helps. > Do we have to add '(offtopic)' to the end of the title? I added to the end now to avoid confusion. AFAIK it's tradition to prepend "OT". Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]