On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:32:09 -0500 Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2003 11:33 am, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > No, the way to avoid the flamewars is for you to be less selfish and > > have them somewhere else where they might actually be approximately > > on-topic. This is *debian-user*, so please keep threads here at > > least vaguely related to Debian. > > As these topics have obviously so much popularity between debian > community maybe it would be a good idea to create a debian-world list, > where debian people could discuss about general topics, politics, > philosophy, etc... > > I mean if we admit that debian community as a whole share some common > points of views, it would be very interesting to here them. > > > Alfredo > This is constructive. There is obviously a requirement, and it would provide a venue for those that are interested in discussions of this nature, while maintaining it within, and thereby promoting the community aspect of Debian. By creating a venue of this type, you would also have personalities that would be interested in maintaining a reasonable standard in idea interchange that would probably deliver the same message to the purveyors of drivel that they are receiving now. I was participating initially, but the situation has deteriorated to that of your average mental midget. The second creative aspect is that it would remove a distraction from Debian-User, and allow the function of that list to proceed on its' principal course, preserving goodwill within the community. A mature personality is creative, any idiot can be destructive, m'kay?:) With personally noted migration of Red Hat users to Debian recently, because of the Red Hat desertion of the desktop, the new Debian installer, and the Progeny port of Anaconda, I see the potential of Debian use doubling, so beside Alfredos' recommendation, I would respectfully suggest the creation of at least two other mailing lists. Networking and Mail (icorporating spamassassin, clamav, etc.,) are two subjects that I have noticed have a high incidence and may well rate their own venues. If Debian adoption becomes as I suspect, Debian-User as the 'general' list would be deluged. But assumption isn't a sound basis, and these last two may be premature. Regards, David. ___ Iraq over? Quick, change channels. Let's see what's happening with 'Southpark.' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
