[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:26:59AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > If you want to be off topic yet marginally related to Debian, use > > -curiosa. If it has nothing to do with Debian at all, pick from > > the multitude of fora where it would be on topic. > > [qoute Joey Hess] To be clear, I am not suggesting a rigid adherence > to on-topic discussion. Offtopic discussions can help as social > lubrication and can help a community come together. [/quote]
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. If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that an entire separate list is being considered, the off-topic diversion is already beyond the level Joey describes as "social lubricant" and into the level of disruptive noise. -- \ "I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I feel like | `\ I've forgotten this before sometime." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]