On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:16:10PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > In my opinion, this list will lose its "precious resources" sooner due > to jackasses like yourself chasing them off with holier-than-thou > attitude than it will to the occasional off-topic technical question. I agree entirely. Debian-User has certainly weathered its share of threads that were far more off-topic than GPG under WinXP... > "Opinions are like assholes ... everybody has one." That doesn't mean > you should go airing yours out in public. Hehe! You don't mind if I toss that in my signify file, do you? > Now I think my point is made clear. When I answered the gpg question, > it took 30 seconds to give someone an answer. Fine, he wasn't really a > user of debian. I apologize for sharing our precious knowledge with the > second-class citizens. And, of course, there's already the perfectly effective method that Debian-user has been using all along for dealing with the OT brain-drain (along with the flamewars, the trolls, etc): When people get fed up with a topic, they quit replying. When everybody gets fed up enough to quit replying, the topic goes away. [In reply to Soren's position in general] If somebody's question strikes *you* as being out-of-place enough as to not warrant an answer, fine: Don't waste *your own* precious time and human resources answering it. If your screen-space is at such a premium that you take offence to seeing any replies to said message, fine: Killfile the thread. If you feel that you are in a position to dictate what *other* people do with their time and their knowledge, then you are laying claim to an authority to which you have no right. If you feel that an off-topic question is an issue worthy of a multi-page flame, then you're probably in the wrong place. It seems very unlikely that the admittedly eloquent rantings of a self-proclaimed asshole are going to turn this large, vociferous, and largely anarchistic community into the single-minded tech-support machine that you seem to be fantasizing about. Maybe you should go set up a debian-user-moderated list somewhere for like-minded purists. Adding my share of fuel to the fire... -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | You don't *have* a soul. You *are* a soul. < > Please do not | You *have* a body, temporarily. < > reply off-list. | - A Canticle For Liebowitz < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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