On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:27:58AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:56:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > ... looking at the "Etch + USB Modem -- Supported?" thread I'm guessing > > > you guys (at least you and Ron) are also missing those. > > > > yeah, sorry I spelled your name wrong there. But since Celejar has > > logged my claim to be done with that thread, I can't properly issue a > > correction. > > Don't worry about it, I'm used to it :) (though I usually get the Polish > spelling (Andrej) not the German one) > > > I'm still up in the air about d-ot (heh. that's a good one, d.o.t.) as > > ? I don't get this one (Department of Technology?)
Department of Transportation, that great American bastion of bureaucratic efficiency </sarcasm> > > > I don't think its actually practical to implement. For example, how > > would one go about moving that USB^h^h^hVituperations thread over to > > d.o.t. and then moving it back when it veers back on-topic. > > Just get a list ethicist to do the police work :) "Hey guys, this is > off-topic on this off-topic list, take it to d-u/d-d/..." where is joe anyway? > > > its a difficult social problem for which there are few if any > > technological solutions... > > Joke aside, I understand your concern, but I don't see a better solution > to have offtopic threads without disturbing d-u. And if the posters are > careful enough to move it to offtopic, they can also move it back to d-u > if they feel what they are writing belongs there (too). > > It may seem that I am pushing this too hard, but it's annoying not to > get a clear stance on this, especially when Holger Levsen from the > debian-community project seems to agree on hosting such a list if the > project won't (there's also googlegroups as a last resort). I have no clear stance on it, and I suspect that is the case for a lot of people, hence the lack of actual discussion in this thread. I personally think it won't work, but see no harm in others trying it out. HOw's that for a non-commital response. A
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