On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:05:27AM EDT, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > >I apologize for Marco. I admit none of his posts have been > >about religion or politics. However, I confess to being > >supportive of his OT suggestion that debian-user return to > >the kinds of subject matter that once made it useful. > > > I'd sort of be happy to get back to off topic discussions. > > At this point this meta-topic "rampant offtopic and offensive posts to > debian-user" seems to be dominating list traffic. > > From the archives, as of a few minutes ago: > - total messages today (5/22): 69 > - total re: "rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user" 15 (22%) > - total otherwise marked OT or offtopic: 2 (3%) > - other (on-topic) messages: 52 (75%) > > Of the on-topic messages, they cover 24 topics, not one of which has > more than 4 messages. > > So... I'm led to conclude that: > > i. 24 different useful topics (at least, presumably useful to someone) > have been addressed - quickly and succinctly > > ii. the spate of off-topic conversation, from a few days ago, has > largely died out
Well, yes .. That was the hidden purpose of this thread. Amazing so many of you gentleman fell for it. > iii. a few blow-hards are still polluting the list with complaints about > "rampant offtopic posting" and calls for banning people, moderation, > rule changes, and so forth > > Personally, I'm pretty adept at scanning headers and using my delete > key, and find all of this pretty amusing, but still... enough is enough > already. > Get a life. That's what I have been thinking all along. The half a dozen compulsive posters on this list _must_ take a sabbatical of sorts .. Having the debian user list as the focal point of their existence is unnatural. No good will ever come of this. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
