RE: OT

["Julian De Marchi" <julian@jdcomputers.com.au>]

How about just talk about debian on a debian list. 

Is that to hard?

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 27 February 2007 09:03
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: OT

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:51:30AM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote:
> I totally agree..... Stop pushing your views on to us!!!!! Sign up to a
> political, or religious mailing list instead....

I'm sorry, but I don't see anyone pushing their views on anyone
else. I see people exchanging ideas and arguing about them, but I dont
see anyone trying to "convert" anyone else. The surest way to help
control noise on a list like this is to not generate noise. This
thread is noise -- because it is complaining about noise. 

> 
> I do not need to hear these issues.... 

then don't read them. they are clearly marked OT, and if they aren't
initially, someone usually makes the change before too long, so just
skip them its not that hard, *and* its not all that common here. It
happens. Now if this was debian class at university and the teacher
started arguing with the class about something non-debian, sure,
complain, otherwise, just suck it up and move on. I mean that in the
nicest way possible. :)

A

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niels Rasmussen [mailto:nielsrasmus@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 February 2007 08:53
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: OT
> 
> John - wrote:
> > On (24 and 25/02/07) mainly the same four or five folks  wrote:
> > 
> >> Quite a lot of off-topic opinionated political nonsense.
> > 
> > Look, guys -- you know who you are -- I (and others, most likely)
> > don't mind OT topics from time to time, and I/we can pretty easily
> > delete without reading, should I/we wish to do so. A certain amount is
> > tolerable, and I/we grant some slack because self-expression can be a
> > learning experience.
> > 
> > But: a fair number of posts reveal that the authors have quite a
> > shallow grasp of politics.  Worse, many are written from an adolescent
> > ego-centered intent to prevail, even though there's no worthwhile
> > content added.
> > 
> > Think of it this way: would you like to have to wade through the views
> > of AOL members eager to vindicate their opinions about open source
> > software?
> > 
> > So give us a break, and instead of political drivel, get back to your
> > usual smart and insightful comments about Debian?  Please?
> > 
> 
> I agree with you upon this !!!
> 
> I've even considered to put the writers of political issues on my spamlist
!
> 
> This is the wrong forum to debate this !!
> 
> What I dont want in my inbox, is mails that contains political and
religious
> issues.
> 
> Of course I can drop out of this list if I dont want to discuss it, but
then
> where should I go to get help with Debian related stuff ?? Anyone ??
> 
> -- 
> /Niels
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