Re: moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, May 22, 2007 06:08:41 AM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > M. Fioretti wrote: > >(*) yes, the moderators, that is listmasters or whatever you want to > >call them. I have read your objection that this is a not moderated > >list, but it is irrelevan

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, May 21, 2007 10:46:09 AM -0400, Celejar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'll point out that the OT thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a > response to a sig that I felt attacked religion unfairly. Many > people use quite provocative sigs, ridiculing (often wittily) > political or religious

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, May 21, 2007 09:55:22 AM +0300, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > By forum I meant whole Debian, not this list (should have put some > quotes around). > > > Of course. How can you ask such a ridiculous question? Please think a > > bit more before posting. First of all, going by

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, May 20, 2007 22:15:34 PM +0300, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that > > an entire separate list is being considered, the off-topic diversion > > is

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:55:34 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Please avoid this kind of technical suggestions in this thread: > > > >* it is still the same unacceptable "since you can buy ear plugs, I > > can yell whenever I want" attitude. See my previous messages > > >

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:33:41 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: > > * everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every > > time these characters rerun their show > > How do I pay real money? It doe

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:19:31 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > M. Fioretti wrote: > >No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: > > > >* everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every time > > these characters rerun the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 15:12:51 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Not true. For example, I'm having trouble with Firefox >crashing Asking here could help a great deal with that. Of course. But rambling for months about religion or internal USA politics has nothing to do with i

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 14:34:50 PM -0400, Greg Folkert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > That changes many thing. First off BANNING is not the answer. It > will be seen a a "bad thing" by the blogosphere and some journalists > that see only bad things. You mean more bad than "the main support forum of o

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 11:18:22 AM -0500, Gnu_Raiz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What it comes down to pretty much is some people want a moderated > debian-user list! The only choice left is to see if you can > change, the list type to moderated, or add more to the code of > conduct. I don't kno

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 10:28:19 AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I guess the question is where to draw and then who draws that line. Roberto, please don't try to go all philosophical on us acting and pontificating as if you didn't understand what and who Joey was talking a

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 01:50:10 AM -0500, Gnu_Raiz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ROFL Those are some true words short and sweet and to the point! > Nice! I consider this like the newspaper how many people read the > whole paper cover to cover? One main difference is that the real cost of the newspap

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 18, 2007 16:41:49 PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, > > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to > read our user lists) due to volume and offensiven

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, May 08, 2007 15:49:54 PM -0400, Amy Templeton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey all, > > Can anybody recommend a *really, really convincing* source of > information I can give people/my college that will aid in deterring > them from trying to force people to use MS-Office files (by sendin

Re: dns cambia sempre

2007-04-05 Thread M. Fioretti
(suggesting the OP where to find an Italian support group) On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 11:27:14 AM +0200, Armando Sambäk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ho installato debian etch (sono newbie) il browser parte solo, se > cambia (sempre- dopo cca 10 minuti) il dns, il nummero mio non > rimane, qualcuno mi p

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 10:36:28 AM -0400, Greg Folkert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am both for and against the GPLv3. I am all for updating it, but > the wording and additional restrictions are appalling, none the > least the motivations for updating it, and now the attitude RMS has > against any

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 23:37:30 PM -0800, Justin Gallardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette > ... > Also, if you can think of any other good points to bring up during > this talk, I would love to hear them. 0)

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 17:08:16 PM +0100, Per Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here is my 0.02$: > > - Never start a new topic by replying to an existing email and just > change the subject. This will mess things up for people (like me) who > uses threads. Fortunately proper mail clients (r

Re: is this fair comment?????

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 09:41:32 AM +1100, M-L ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I went to the site, it did say "Spread the Word" So I assume > you're moving off the subject for a reason? I'm am not 100% sure I understand your answer, but I _believe_ you are referring to the "spread the word - digg

Re: is this fair comment?????

2007-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 21:45:48 PM +, Michael Fothergill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I found an article on a web site called linux-watch > (http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3128387759.html) [...] > > Is this article accurate in its reporting? I have no idea yet, must still think about it. B