Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user
On 05/19/2007 10:16 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
[...]
OK. Let's recap:
- Amy asked: "If somebody's current provider provides only POP, should
they be forced to switch to another provider just for the privilege
of being on this list?"
- I pointed out that [...]
Amy asked a rhetorical question--not a technical one.
mpop would provide some similar functionality to
IMAP (i.e., deleting messages on the server and so on).
- Tyler Smith tells me I missed the point, that I am using this as a
license to continue posting OT and then goes on a missive about how
if things don't get fixed how we will lose both newbies and
experienced users and how he is willing to sacrifice some freedom in
the topics on the list to keep that from happening. (Please note
that this was in reply to my *technical* message about managing POP [...]
It was not a *technical* message. It was a *rhetorical* question; the
person who asks a rhetorical message already knows the answer, and in
the case of Amy's question, the answer is _no_: a user should not have
to change ISPs just to adjust to a few people's desire to post off-topic
messages.
mail from the server and that he also undid my change of the Subject
header I made to reflect the new direction of that subthread.)
- I reply to clarify that I was addressing a technical point, pointed
out that he undid my change to the Subject header and then also
pointed out that he was taking my technical Debian-related discussion
and making it seem like that was somehow an attempt of mine to make
things even *more* OT. [...]
This thread is not off-topic; it's about the future of debian-user, and
AFAIK, debian-user is on-topic in debian-user. I want debian-user to
continue to be freely accessible to all and unmoderated, but it seems a
few people want to ruin it for the rest.
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