Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:15:56PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:47:38 +0200
> David Jardine <david@jardine.de> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT
> > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt
> > > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs,
> > > ridiculing (often wittily) political or religious views they oppose. If
> > > we demand that posts be inoffensive, I counter-request that people cut
> > > the offensive sigs.
> >
> > So it seems that what we really need is not a separate OT list but
> > a separate politically correct, censored list, while the rest of
> > the community carries on ranting, reminiscing, joking - and
> > requesting and receiving expert advice on using their debian systems.
>
> I'm not sure I understand your comment. A simple joke? A mockery of my
> point? Are you for or against OT stuff, including rants? I don't mean
> to be difficult, I just don't want to misread you.
I just wanted to say that one - mostly inactive - subscriber to the
list was happy to accept all the noise in return for a human
(arrogant, humorous, offensive, thoughtful, bigoted...) face to the
list and a lot of useful help.
--
David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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