On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:53:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > See: Posting about religion is identically off-topic on gentoo-user as > it is here, and thus belongs in neither place. Posting about buying a > new motherboard is more relevant here *if* you will be putting Debian on > it, and so belongs here (if you'll be putting gentoo on it, it belongs > there). Posting about politics/patents is identically relevant on both, > and thus belongs on neither, _unless_ the post directly relates to > Debian in some way. Perhaps because it's talking about how patent issues > will affect Debian or how Debian will react to/get around them. > You miss my point. Even if a politics/patents discussion is started that *is* on-topic for a Debian users list, it won't be long before it heads into off-topic areas. The question is do you disallow anything that could even *become* off-topic or do you appoint someone to stop it once it happens? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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