On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:47:17PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:34:04AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
. . . > > Interestingly, the OT threads on debian-user also went down a lot > > since a few years, for reasons unknown to me. > > > > So, unless something happens on the list (apart from this thread and > > the spam) I intend to remove/delete the list within a month. > > Still haunts me.. I shouldn't have done, but I bit.. and I got involved > in yet another OT squabble. Being a proud & responsible D-U citizen I'm > embarrassed .. deep down, I know I should have ignored the idiot.. but > it's too late now.. I can't just let go... I have to stick to my guns > and reply to the obnoxious poster who so ridiculed my previous valuable > contribution.. > > But wait.. maybe I could carry this over to D-OT, what..? > > So what do I do..? recommend we continue our heated discussion on the OT > mailing list..? too bad.. she's not subscribed to D-OT .. and given the > circumstances and our disagreement.. no way she's going to go through > all the trouble of subscribing.. > > Otherwise.. maybe I could use the scripting capabilities of my mutt to > forward the entire thread to debian-off-topic and post some kind of > form....? telling her that I'd be delighted to continue discussing.. and > if she is agreeable, she only needs to click on the proverbial ‘here’ at > the bottom of the form to be almost automatically subscribed to D-OT, so > we can ‘legally’ carry on with our jousting.. and in so doing.. stop > bothering the less tolerant technically-minded subscribers of D-U.. ?? > > Nobody is going to _start_ a thread on ‘debian-OT’ .. I mean OT.. sure.. > but relative to what..? and there does not seem to be a simple mechanism > where one could migrate a flourishing OT sub-thread from D-Uto D-OT.. > > Makes sense there is ~= None activity on D-OT.. I like the O-T list idea. More list definition means more mixing and match the flavor of each mailbox. Far more convenient than slogging through an "everything" list. These lists are a starting point for 55% of my learning. I don't see why others shouldn't be particular about them too. Debian-OT should get more promo on the big high-traffic Debian lists. The problem is getting readership so posters are attracted, or is it vice versa? I like the idea of automated cross-posting Subjects: containg [OT], and like ramifications, to debian-offtopic for a while. Additionally, maybe a separate debian-user-for-ubuntu-users list?! -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110301051409.GA3231@Deneb.office
