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Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?)



On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:46:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:45:15PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> > How about suggesting the use of:
>> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
>> > instead?
>> 
>> It does not apply for the case we are treating here: you post into the
>> offtopic mailing list when you know *beforehand* that you are not going
>> to ask for something related to Debian not when you are in doubt :-)
> 
> Wouldn't it make more sense that if you **think it could** be off topic
> that you post to the off topic list?

Only when you estimate the probability for being OT minor to 50%.

> What sort of posts would go to d-community-offtopic? How do I cook
> brocolli? How do I spell brocolli?  I genuinely interested in any
> thoughts.

Yes, exactly.

But I wouldn't post there how to configure an Oracle database with the 
current Debian stable. Hope you see the "slightly" difference between a 
brocolli and Oracle.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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