Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:38:15PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..bull, the way to avoid the flame wars is use the newsgroup interface
> and a newsreader, and simply weed out those useless threads you don't
> wanna download.
No, the way to avoid the flamewars is for you to be less selfish and
have them somewhere else where they might actually be approximately
on-topic. This is *debian-user*, so please keep threads here at least
vaguely related to Debian. It's clear that the thread leading up to here
no longer has anything to do with Debian and no longer makes any sense
on this mailing list; it would fit better on somebody's blog or a Usenet
politics group or something, not here.
I'm definitely not giving up mutt for reading Debian mailing lists; it's
the only way I manage to get through as many posts as I do, and it keeps
my reading of debian-user consistent with the two dozen or so other
Debian mailing lists I'm subscribed to. I know NNTP patches exist, but
that involves a lot more setup and would require me to keep a
locally-patched version of mutt.
If you have a problem with what I'm saying, please consider following up
by private mail. I've got no interest in having a flamewar about the
flamewar and compounding the problem.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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