On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:23:08 +0300
Atis <atis@BEST.eu.org> wrote:
On 6/1/07, Peter Gruessing <reviewdirector@yahoo.com> wrote:
I thought this was a Debian Linux mailing list?>????
Yes, this is, but there is often accusation, that this is list for
users of Debian, and as such, may contain any discussions of Debian
users.
What i have to propose - create separate ML for offtopic discussions.
A little background for this:
I'm involved in European student organization, and about half year ago
a separate ML was created, named junk@. It has no rules, and people
are encouraged to discuss there anything silly/political/religious,
without any consequences. What have become of it - it's really
strengthening community, making people to know each other better. Not
to mention, that other MLs have become much cleaner and topic-related.
Regards,
Atis
Yes, but offtopic threads evolve from on-topic ones. It would be very
annoying to see posts like this:
... this is I could do to help you, and see my offtopic opinion on
junk@list.
Not to mention that when people not subscribed to the debian-user
list read an offtopic reaction without the previous context (users
will almost always forget to include it), most likely they will post
several "What are you referring to?" answers.
I just wanted to say that it's a good idea to have an unmoderated
"offtopic" list, but it wouldn't reduce much of this list's offtopic
messages.
Personally I like the anarchy of this OT stuff - and respect that
people *do* mark the subject line as [OT] which is entirely appropriate
because it enables those who do not want to pursue OT threads to scroll
on by.