Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
> > There exists a gentoo-user mailing list. If a post to debian-user
> > would be exactly as on-topic if posted to gentoo-user, then it is
> > offtopic on *both* lists, and belongs on neither.
>
> Not true. For example, I'm having trouble with Firefox crashing. It
> could be packing, it could be the program, it could be a known bug. (I
> haven't looked it up yet.) If I can eliminate it being a bug in the
> code and have done my homework with Google, it would be on topic to ask
> about it here, since it is an issue with a Debian package and I may
> need to narrow it down. Asking here could help a great deal with that.
Asking about issues with Debian packages would be offtopic for a Gentoo
mailing list. :)
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