Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic"?)
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:38:27PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:06:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > But, it **IS** ON TOPIC if they are not looking for Oracle support, so
> > marking it [OT] is counter productive.
>
> And when is that to happen? What's the line that makes the difference
> between both? In the end, you are asking for support about an Oracle
> product, right?
It could be an installation issue; working in with the Debian system.
Then it is not [OT]
> > d-community-offtopic would be the list to post to if they wanted free
> > Oracle support.
>
> The list to post would be in that case the Oracle forum or mailing lists
Oracle don't tend to give out free help. Could you find a mailing list?
> but the OP already knows that and he/she is not looking for *that kind*
> of support,
Free help is better than paying for it. :)
> that's why he/she tags the subject as OT here, not in debian offtopic ML.
Are you suggesting that some posts to d-community-offtopic be marked as
[OT] ?
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