Re: [Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Celejar wrote: > Lots of sigs are "derogatory of another culture" - those mocking > religion, or liberal / conservative / other political views. It may help people to remember that another person cannot define you or tell anyone who you are, what kind of culture you are p

Re: [Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:18:59 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:31:01PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > So, then, lets say that a member of Islam has a very "provocative, but > > very accepted in their culture, quote." > > I assume that you mean a

Re: [Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:31:01PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > So, then, lets say that a member of Islam has a very "provocative, but > very accepted in their culture, quote." I assume that you mean as a signature. In the body of a message it would only be appropriate if the recipient of the m

Re: [Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:31:01 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:36 +, steef wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > <.> > > > As a side note I must say that I have been a member

[OT]rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 02:22 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/21/2007 01:55 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Just in case you missed my initial proposal, I was suggesting a separate > > list for OT, but still within the Debian project. This way when OT gets > > out of hand posters could move the thre

[Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:36 +, steef wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > <.> > > As a side note I must say that I have been a member of a volunteer > > organization for 11 years and I have seen a bit of the dynamic inv