Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 02/28/2011 11:13 AM, Slicky Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200
> Andrei Popescu<andreimpopescu@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user]
> >
> > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Being the stubborn person that I am, I want to give one more chance
> > to the -offtopic list for Debian users and/or developers.
> >
> > Thanks to Holger Levsen, the list is currently hosted on
> > lists.alioth.debian.org by the Debian Community project and has some
> > 30+ subscribers. However, activity is zero (not counting the
> > occasional spam).
> >
> > Interestingly, the OT threads on debian-user also went down a lot
> > since a few years, for reasons unknown to me.
> >
> > So, unless something happens on the list (apart from this thread and
> > the spam) I intend to remove/delete the list within a month.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrei
> Well I like the idea of this list, and it would be nice to see more
> activity. I'm not exactly sure why the list would need to be killed.
> Running out of space? lol.
Nobody uses OT mailing lists.  If they want to just sound off, there are
"social" sites that cater to those people.  Twitter, etc.  If you kill it,
virtually no-one will miss it.
--doug



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