Noah Slater wrote: > Sheesh, and I was flamed for being OT. :-) Then I wrote: > People tend to appear to prefer variety in their off topic stuff.
Then Noah Slater wrote: > You're implication is bogus. I wasn't implying anything. You implied others view some of your posts as off topic, and I then made what was intended as a lighthearted comment. So much for humour ... Michael. -- [ The "on-topic" stuff (from my perspective) was shunted off to the developer list, so whatever views I have on on/off topic aren't even in play here :-) Yes, I *do* find some things boring and repetitive, and if stays boring and repetitive I'll unsubscribe again and probably check back again in a few months time and see if things have improved. That's not the same as being on or off topic - it's more about relevance. If I've heard the same arguments 100 times over the past 10 years, its unlikely to change my opinion and after the first 10 or 20 times the conversation ceases to be relevant to me. Of course you'd rightly say "it doesn't have to be relevant to you", which is fine and correct. I'd like backstage to be relevant to me because the list supports a concept of "use our stuff to make your stuff", and I'm one of the sources of "our stuff". However, I am not the world. It's just personal opinion and nowhere near "official" opinion. If it hasn't changed to become relevant after that time (or preferably without having to unsubscribe because of irrelevance), then to me an individual, as a developer on my own time and as a developer of stuff the BBC has released as opensource/free software and advocated publicly (and officially with approval) the use, improvement and creation of open source software (all for practical, not dogmatic reasons), the list becomes pointless. But then I am not the world - there's plenty of other places I can go read stuff and discuss stuff. Wouldn't be a big deal, just a pity ] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
