On Thursday 22 August 2002 16:50, David A. Sinck wrote:
> obligatory...an attempt to make the mail relevant to the group in
> question. :-)
Since I spent the time finding this link, I might as well post it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=aahzEF45Lp.27I%40netcom.com
A good quote from that thread is:
It is short for "obligatory". It comes from the custom on some social
newsgroups and mailing lists, that a mostly off-topic post is more
acceptable if some attempt is made at relating it to the topic of the
group or list. Thus we see, for example, posts mostly about the
philosophy and economics of public transit, with a paragraph at the
bottom tagged ObPoly:, noting how transportation needs in the poster's
family are affected by having multiple adults in hir family .....
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