In article , ROY! wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:47:04 -0500, "Swingman" wrote:

With the advent of the civilized, considerate, practice of marking "off
topic" messages "OT" hereabouts (apparently an excellent practice, in most
of our opinions), many have noted that replies to the original messages in a
"Thread" so marked do not retain the all important "OT" designation.

Strictly FWIW ... YMMV

Anyone filtering OT would not see your OT MESSAGE HEADERS post.

Depends on how they filter, doesn't it? A filter that's looking for "OT" at
the *beginning* of the subject line would not trap that post.