For the easily upset stop reading....look for the button with the trash can...
> I think it would be good if an official Debian person would weigh in with a > comment on where to draw the line in terms of threads going off on tangents > about hardware (or even being purely about hardware in the first place)... I think we should just have a long, devolved OT thread on what should and shouldn't be talked about on the list. *OR* If it's just this specific question that bugs you write up a couple short mails on what hardware to avoid, that politely but firmly explains this list isn't intended to be a hardware list, and where to ask those sorta questions. You could mail it to the list this letter, and as a group we could forward it to questions that are best answered some where else, who knows maybe it could even be posted somewhere as a FAQ, or be sent out when someone first subscribes. also, there's not some devine mandate to pay attention to any and all questions on the list, that's why we were given /dev/null and collapsible threads. -patrick