Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Andrei Popescu wrote: I see a significant percent of the traffic on this list being due to off-topic threads. And some contributors are complaining about the unnecessary traffic. Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? I suggest the following scheme: - create off-topic list. - move all

Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? > > I don't see that much off-topic discussion here (IMHO, anything related to > Debian user experience is on-topic here and that's pretty wide topic), but > the problem of all off-topi

Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? I don't see that much off-topic discussion here (IMHO, anything related to Debian user experience is on-topic here and that's pretty wide topic), but the problem of all off-topic lists is that people who don't care enough to not

Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-23 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:04:09 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? Why not join the fray at the Mandrake (Mandriva) Off topic list) we need some new victims ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H list members The signup address is at http://mandrakeot.mdw1982

Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-23 Thread Angelina Carlton
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > Sorry if it has been discused before, but ... > > I see a significant percent of the traffic on this list being due to > off-topic threads. And some contributors are complaining about the > unnecessary traffic. > > Why not simply cr

Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hello everybody, Sorry if it has been discused before, but ... I see a significant percent of the traffic on this list being due to off-topic threads. And some contributors are complaining about the unnecessary traffic. Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? Andrei -- If you can't expla