On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:00 pm, Cornerstone Community Farm wrote:
> Carroll, You MISSED the point!
> The point is in the course of REAL life, with real people
> (versus robots or machines), issues involving philosophy and other non-list
> discussions come up.  (boats, beer, politics, you name it)
> It seems odd to me that you could miss such an obvious point, as just the
> fact that OT topics come up on a "newbie" list shows we are dealing with
> real people, not robots:)
> Keith
aHa I passed the Turing test.
>
> On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:02 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:23 am, Cornerstone Community Farm wrote:
> > >>>> snip
> > >
> > > This list (and life in general) are not for you if you can not make
> > > brief excusions into philosophy (real life).
> > > Keith (living a joy filled life)  :)
> >
> > Whoa, tiger. You're way off base. Who chose you to define the purpose of
> > the list? Trust me, it is not for the purpose of discussing philosophy,
> > religion, politics, raising organic (or orgasmic) vegtables, fishing,
> > quilting, cabinet making, or ballet. There are already more than enough
> > web resources for all that jazz, and Mandrake is not about to spend any
> > of its scarce frances duplicating them. This list is solely a means for
> > newbies, not-so-newbies, old hands and damn smart cookies to resolve
> > problems and exchange news related to Mandrake Linux. Incidental comments
> > on other topics are tolerated, but not encouraged.
> >
> > If you want to enrich your joy filled life by exchanging views on various
> > OT topics, join one of the OT lists. That's why they exist.
> > -- cmg


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