I totally agree with what Weaver said.
On Oct 6, 2011 4:31 PM, "Weaver" <
weaver@riseup.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:15:07 -0400
> Miles Fidelman <
mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>
>> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> > All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
>> > difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
>> >
>> > Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and
>> > stop this juvenile OT nonsense.
>> >
>>
>> What's your problem? It's interesting stuff, and everyone is being
>> polite and marking it [OT] and all that (except you, I might note).
>> Maybe you should learn to use your delete key and/or kill-file stuff
>> containing "[OT]"
>>
>
> The point has often been made that this list is for Debian 'Users' and
> not therefore strictly Debian subject matter. I think a bit of social
> interaction does have the tendency to create 'community' which is
> Debian's strength, so it could be viewed as productive.
> What I have seen, with the clearly marked OT threads is the ability to
> ignore/delete them as I do when I look through and delete any other
> threads that I am not currently interested in or can't help with.
> The 'noise' on this list is nothing to what I have seen in the past.
> One, I remember, over communist mainland China and Taiwan that
> resulted, very regretfully, in a kernel developer leaving.
> We are human beings and not automatons.
> We use different oil.
> Regards,
>
> Weaver.
>
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