Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user]
>
> [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439]
>
> Hi,
>
> Being the stubborn person that I am, I want to give one more chance to
> the -offtopic list for Debian users and/or developers.
>
> Thanks to Holger Levsen, the list is currently hosted on
> lists.alioth.debian.org by the Debian Community project and has some 30+
> subscribers. However, activity is zero (not counting the occasional
> spam).
>
> Interestingly, the OT threads on debian-user also went down a lot since
> a few years, for reasons unknown to me.
>
> So, unless something happens on the list (apart from this thread and the
> spam) I intend to remove/delete the list within a month.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
I sincerely like the idea. Like minded individuals all sharing a common
base, debian would make for interesting conversations. Convincing others
to take their beefs with Apple/Microsoft among other zealot-oriented
discussion to this list is another matter all together.
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