On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:02:21AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > > discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > > "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they > > need to be *interspersed* with the on-topic discussions in a way that > > doesn't detract from the discussions. > > I already answered this on d-u, but I was misunderstood so I'll try > again. > > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum (read > Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers and for > some contributors (yes, answering questions is also a way of > contributing, so you - the DDs - don't have to do this here) the > community might be the thing that keeps them here rather then some other > project or FOSS in general.
They don't have to take it away from the Debian lists... They can always discuss on debian-curiosa if they so desire. Just don't let the off-topic discussions pollute the other lists. [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
