> I'd imagine that 100% of the people on this list interact with email, > which is a much better ratio than those that use X, setup a bootsplash, > or want sound to work. I quitely delete those threads as being of no > interest to me, but interesting and on topic for others on the list. I > expect others to give my and a significant portion of the list's > interests the same curtesy.
That's a problem that most mailing lists suffer from. For this list, some folks believe that if they're running a gentoo system, then the gentoo list is the place to post questions whether they're truly related to gentoo issues or not. I'm on the KDE-linux mailing list and last week there was a long and OT thread that started with an ubuntoo user with an ubuntoo issue that, since he was running linux, thought the kde-linux list was the place to post. Nick is right that the mailserver thing is OT because it's not a specific gentoo issue. Some of the other issues you mentioned are typically more gentoo-related than the mailserver choice thing. That said, each one of us on the list will have our own opinions about what is or is not OT. Let's not beat each other up trying to get everyone to agree that one opinion is the best... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
