On Sb, 01 mai 21, 03:17:39, Weaver wrote: > > `This is a fairly busy mailing list' - Oh no, it isn't! > It used to be. > I can recall days when I'd get 300 mails or more, but that was when the > attitude was it was a list for Debian users, and not just a list for > Debian issues. > At times, there would be 70% of threads on topic, while the rest were > wildly off, but there's one aspect everybody seems to have forgotten: > conversation/communication builds community. > And this list is somewhat dry on that quality these days. > I think we can attribute the list drying up like a river in drought to > that. Though personally I enjoy the occasional off-topic discussion I also recall the complaints from other subscribers about the (wildly!) off-topic mega-threads. > Perhaps the prissy and politically correct simply don't have it right? > Cheers! In my opinion off-topic discussions are orthogonal to that. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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