On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:02 -0500, Ted Roche wrote:
...
> However, this is often the only networking channel many folks have, and
> I don't mind the occasional digressions about "how 'bout them Sox?' or
> 'looking for a job' or 'anyone want to buy an old snowmobile,' as long
> as the level of ch
On Jan 9, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
Should we make political diatribes like this explicitly off-topic on
gnhlug-discuss?
Much as I want to vote yes, I have to say 'No.'
I would ask that folks involved in such discussions flag them with [OT]
in the subject, so those of us (like me)
g.
That's my 2 cents.
c-ya
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Drew Van Zandt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:17 AM
To: GNHLUG
Subject: [OT] Re: RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was:
America ...)
I don't recall anyone suggesting a mo
I agree with Will
And the thread that started this RFC, I never read one message from it,
I could tell what it was just by the subject and deleted it. I suggest
you do the same if you don't like the thread.
I have to disagree, and it may be due to how I read the list. I get the "Daily
Digest"
On Jan 9, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
If someone really wants it, I'm sure we can create
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to
give those interested a forum for this kind of thing. (But see point
#2
above.)
Since there are all sorts of possible off-topic threads (e.g. bread
recipes) I'd suggest [
I don't recall anyone suggesting a moderated list, just some
demonstration of self-control. At a minimum I'd say any such threads
should have [OT] in the subject line, so my computer can do the
filtering, rather than ME doing it. Maybe you don't mind vgrepping
out the noise, but I begrudge the
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 12:54, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> I hereby submit the following Request For Comment to the membership of
> this list: Should we make political diatribes like this explicitly off-topic
> on gnhlug-discuss?
Yes.
--charlie
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Charles Farinella
Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (ww
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 20:04 -0500, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The current "Off Topic" discussion was started by an observation that the US
> economy is not considered as "free" as others, nor as "free" as what it had
> been. I (for one) felt that this was a reasonable topic for a list about
I have to disagree, and it may be due to how I read the list. I get the "Daily
Digest" format of the list. I really don't care if there are 2, 5, 10 or 50
messages in a day, I scan through the headers and go to just the messages on
topics of interest to me.
I view message boards like this one
Hi,
The current "Off Topic" discussion was started by an observation that the US
economy is not considered as "free" as others, nor as "free" as what it had
been. I (for one) felt that this was a reasonable topic for a list about
"free and open source software", and one where we sometimes discuss
Ben,
I'm in favor of such a rule.
I would, however, like to hear your bread recipes.
Bill
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This is a reply to a message in a different thread ("Linux Cafe") which,
although it was posted before this thread, is very relevant to this thread.
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, at 5:19pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have no problem with topic-oriented groups at all. However, with all
> the topic grou
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> Date: 2005/01/09 Sun PM 12:54:14 EST
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> Subject: RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)
>
>
> Well, once again, someone decided to barge onto the list, post some random
&g
I hate to agree, but I must. While political discussion that's
obviously strongly related to Linux seems fine to me (e.g. DMCA and
similar), the lengthy and frequent posts that are obviously not at all
Linux related have gotten quite irritating. If you start one of these
threads with someone, TAK
Well, once again, someone decided to barge onto the list, post some random
political diatribe that had nothing to do with Linux, and it spun into a 30+
message thread that had nothing to do with Linux, and indeed, little to do
with anything other then general complaining.
The long, obscure te
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