Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 02:56:30PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hmm, afaiac, it would be nice to have an off-topic list with the hopes of a > > lot > > of the people on debian-user might subscribe to it. > > I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the > official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere. But, > such a list will only serve its purpose if it gets used *instead* > of off-topic conversations on this list. Does anyone think that > d-community-offtopic served that purpose? My general feeling is > things are worse now than they were when d-community-offtopic was > around and active, but I'm not sure that this is causation.
I don't think that's causal. I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move their threads. Would it thrive independently of that? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps more so if all the subscribers of debian-user were automatically subscribed to debian-user-offtopic, and had to unsubscribe manually. -dsr-
