Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Jonathan Dowland wrote: 
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 02:56:30PM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think the way forward this time would be to request one on the
> official Debian mailing list server, rather than elsewhere.  But,
> such a list will only serve its purpose if it gets used *instead*
> of off-topic conversations on this list. Does anyone think that
> d-community-offtopic served that purpose? My general feeling is
> things are worse now than they were when d-community-offtopic was
> around and active, but I'm not sure that this is causation.

I don't think that's causal.

I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to
have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move
their threads.

Would it thrive independently of that? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps
more so if all the subscribers of debian-user were automatically
subscribed to debian-user-offtopic, and had to unsubscribe
manually.

-dsr-