Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)
On 18-08-2021 04:56, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 10:54:34 AM SDA wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:01:43PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 08:26:34AM -0400, SDA wrote:
>> > > BTW there has been an off-topic list introduced by a community member,
>> > > but it seems has had little uptake.
>> >
>> > I looked into this the other day, because I hadn't seen reference to it
>> > for a while. It was called d-community-offtopic; it was hosted on the
>> > Alioth server, and I think its eventual demise was when Alioth was
>> > turned off in around 2018.
>> >
>> > The last non-spam message to it was, I think, in 2016. The archives are
>> > here:
>> >
>> > https://alioth-lists-archive.debian.net/pipermail/d-community-offtopic.mb
>> > ox/
>>
>> Thanks for the update Jonathan.
>
> Hmm, afaiac, it would be nice to have an off-topic list with the hopes of a lot
> of the people on debian-user might subscribe to it.
>
> Somewhat relevant to the subject of an off-topic mailing list, I'm now puzzling
> over why an NiMH AA battery tested to hold 18 maHrs seems to power an LED
> flashilight for many hours longer than an NiMH AAA battery tested to hold 120
> maHrs (ratio is like 24 hours to 3 hours -- how can that possibly be? (I'd
> give a few more details if I was actually askinjg the question on that off-
> topic mail list.
... and I hope another Debian-user will be able to help you.
Cheers!
Harry.
--
`Unthinking respect for authority is
the greatest enemy of truth'.
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