Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread Joe
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:51:22 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > > Did I say that? > > What you quoted up there of mine (where I said there instead of their > up there) was an attempt at jocularity. I know you're the moral > arbiter around these parts, repeating yourself and pointing things > out and a

Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread Joe
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:51:22 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2018-12-11, Joe wrote: > > > >> On 2018-12-10, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> > > >> > Beyond that, I *thought* I remembered a few times seeing long > >> > threads being (politely) advised to move it on over to offtopic, > >> > meaning

Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:13:35PM +, Brian wrote: On Mon 10 Dec 2018 at 17:47:20 -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: I *thought* there used to be a Debian-Offtopic (or off-topic) listserv, but I don't see it listed on the listserv homepage [0]... which is where I THOUGHT I saw it listed. Your

Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread Marek Mosiewicz
W dniu 11.12.2018, wto o godzinie 14∶09 +, użytkownik Joe napisał: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:16:01 + (UTC) > Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-12-10, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > > > Beyond that, I *thought* I remembered a few times seeing long > > > threads being (politely) advised to move i

Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread Curt
On 2018-12-11, Joe wrote: > >> On 2018-12-10, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> > >> > Beyond that, I *thought* I remembered a few times seeing long >> > threads being (politely) advised to move it on over to offtopic, >> > meaning the listserv I thought I remembered.. >> > >> >> Yeah, but apparently

Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread Joe
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:16:01 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2018-12-10, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > Beyond that, I *thought* I remembered a few times seeing long > > threads being (politely) advised to move it on over to offtopic, > > meaning the listserv I thought I remembered.. > > > > Ye

Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread songbird
Marek Mosiewicz wrote: ... > I remember time when internet had news groups and it was different type > of social. Maybe it is wrong word. I mean place for generic discussion. > For sure better than TV usenet still exists and the social groups are still there, but they may not be very active t

Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread Curt
On 2018-12-11, Curt wrote: > On 2018-12-10, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> >> Beyond that, I *thought* I remembered a few times seeing long threads >> being (politely) advised to move it on over to offtopic, meaning the >> listserv I thought I remembered.. >> > > Yeah, but apparently the off-topic gr

Re: Debian social

2018-12-11 Thread Curt
On 2018-12-10, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Beyond that, I *thought* I remembered a few times seeing long threads > being (politely) advised to move it on over to offtopic, meaning the > listserv I thought I remembered.. > Yeah, but apparently the off-topic group was consistently drifting on topic

Re: Debian social

2018-12-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 10 December 2018 15:39:05 deloptes wrote: > Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > > What about creating Debian users mailing list for social > > entertainment. I believe Debian users have great intellectual > > abilities and such list where it could be talk about anything could > > be great thing. >

Re: Debian social

2018-12-10 Thread deloptes
Marek Mosiewicz wrote: >> The best is to have friends, family and social contacts in a human >> way - > That is true. >> this means meeting and talking to people. The social media crap is >> total >> BS. >> > I remember time when internet had news groups and it was different type > of social. May

Re: Debian social

2018-12-10 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Dec 2018 at 17:47:20 -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 12/10/18, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > > Hi everybody > > > > What about creating Debian users mailing list for social entertainment. > > I believe Debian users have great intellectual abilities and such list > > where it could be tal

Re: Debian social

2018-12-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 12/10/18, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > Hi everybody > > What about creating Debian users mailing list for social entertainment. > I believe Debian users have great intellectual abilities and such list > where it could be talk about anything could be great thing. > > It could be not necessarily host

Re: Debian social

2018-12-10 Thread Marek Mosiewicz
W dniu 10.12.2018, pon o godzinie 21∶39 +0100, użytkownik deloptes napisał: > Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > > > What about creating Debian users mailing list for social > > entertainment. > > I believe Debian users have great intellectual abilities and such > > list > > where it could be talk about any

Re: Debian social

2018-12-10 Thread deloptes
Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > What about creating Debian users mailing list for social entertainment. > I believe Debian users have great intellectual abilities and such list > where it could be talk about anything could be great thing. When I hear the word "social", a fire of red lights just explodes

Re: Debian social

2018-12-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 05:07:31PM +0100, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > Hi everybody > > What about creating Debian users mailing list for social entertainment. > I believe Debian users have great intellectual abilities and such list > where it could be talk about anything could be great thing. > > It

Debian social

2018-12-10 Thread Marek Mosiewicz
Hi everybody What about creating Debian users mailing list for social entertainment. I believe Debian users have great intellectual abilities and such list where it could be talk about anything could be great thing. It could be not necessarily hosted on Debian servers. Or maybe debian people comm

Re: Debian social contract - who reports bugs upstream?

2009-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:34:12PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > I read this at http://www.debian.org/social_contract : > > 2 We will give back to the free software community YES! ... > It appears that there have been problems with gnu-fdisk that weren't > passed upstream to the mailing lis

Re: Debian social contract - who reports bugs upstream?

2009-01-01 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Arthur Marsh wrote: [snip] > Are there any ways to improve the reporting of bugs upstream without > over-burdening either the Debian package maintainers or the Debian end > users? Push Debian maintainers to report bugs upstream. We all are volunteers, and not everyone has enough time to maintain s

Debian social contract - who reports bugs upstream?

2008-12-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
I read this at http://www.debian.org/social_contract : 2 We will give back to the free software community When we write new components of the Debian system, we will license them in a manner consistent with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We will make the best system we can, so that free w