Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user
On Sat, May 19, 2007 15:12:51 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan
(hal@thresholddigital.com) wrote:
> Not true. For example, I'm having trouble with Firefox
>crashing.... Asking here could help a great deal with that.
Of course. But rambling for months about religion or internal USA
politics has nothing to do with it.
> The OT threads don't bother me, but they do seem to bother others,
> often for the sole point that they can't bear to see anything
> handled other than in the way they want it handled.
No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one:
* everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every time
these characters rerun their show
* tolerating these situations on what should be a technical support
list is (Joey said it) one of the reasons why _developers_ avoid
these forums, making them less useful.
Marco
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