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Re: Off-Topic Posts



On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:03 -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> 
> > Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely
> > because such threads have tended to be short-lived.
> > 
> > However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem to
> > have taken this to mean that this list is appropriate for any and all
> > discussions by users of Debian. I would doubt that was the original
> > intent of the spirit of the phrase "Help and discussion among users of
> > Debian".
> > 
> > I would urge the off-topic posters to return to the spirit of the
> > phrase, and please wind down your off-topic posts, and then strive to
> > keep your posts a bit closer to Debian-related topics.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> 
> I could not have said any better. I completely agree with you. Let's hope
> that the handful of "OT posters" come to their senses quickly.
> 
> raju
> 
LOL.  If we were capable of that we wouldn't have started this in the
first place.  We're all savvy enough in these forms of communications to
know that they hardly ever lead to agreement, but yet we do it
anyway....  

> -- 
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
> 
> 



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