Speaking for myself --
Sometimes an off-topic email perks my interest
so powerfully that, defying all reason of course,
I neglect to disassociate the off-topic from the
topic that it was off. I shall try harder now in
such situations to discipline my response.
PA
Weaver wrote:
On Sat, 08 Oct
On 09/10/11 09:26, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 10/8/2011 4:59 PM, Weaver wrote:
>
>> It's a pity that's not the case, as I sometimes have a question
>> regarding firewalls, etc and take it to the firewall list, yet the
>> number of questions regarding firewalls I have seen on 'debian-user'
>> probab
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:26:24 -0500
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 10/8/2011 4:59 PM, Weaver wrote:
>
> > It's a pity that's not the case, as I sometimes have a question
> > regarding firewalls, etc and take it to the firewall list, yet the
> > number of questions regarding firewalls I have seen on 'd
On 10/8/2011 4:59 PM, Weaver wrote:
> It's a pity that's not the case, as I sometimes have a question
> regarding firewalls, etc and take it to the firewall list, yet the
> number of questions regarding firewalls I have seen on 'debian-user'
> probably far out-number those on 'firewall'.
>
> This
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 14:46:11 -0700
Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:24:07AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> > On 10/06/2011 06:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > >All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
> > >difficult to assist those who actually need help with De
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:24:07AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On 10/06/2011 06:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
> >difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
>
> If you are using an MUA that supports threading,
On 8 October 2011 20:22, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> If you all are true believers in off topic posting, as you have so
> vigorously defended, why don't we _all_ commit ourselves to making one
> OT post per day and see where that leads?
Actually I am not one of " true believers in off topic posting"
On 10/8/2011 8:25 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> I can honestly say that I've yet to find this a problem - either when
> googling or going through list archives. Searches ALWAYS find lots of
> extraneous material and have to be narrowed down. When looking for
> technical information, things get ver
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:01:40 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> I've been trying like h3ll to avoid another response to this for obvious
> reasons.
> ...
I have too. But it appears that I need to speak up on list.
(I've previously apologized to Stan off list.) I hereby offer
my most humble a
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 10/7/2011 7:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
I've been trying like h3ll to avoid another response to this for obvious
reasons.
Me too. But...
But a point needs to be raised that everyone should read and
comprehend.
OT messages get archived with the rest. Depending on t
On 10/7/2011 7:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 07/10/11 07:32, Weaver wrote:
>> What I have seen, with the clearly marked OT threads is the ability to
>> ignore/delete them
>
> Agreed.
I've been trying like h3ll to avoid another response to this for obvious
reasons. But a point needs to be ra
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:58:39 +1100
Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 07/10/11 07:32, Weaver wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:15:07 -0400
> > Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >
> >> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >>> All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it
> >>> more difficult to assist those wh
On 08/10/11 01:49, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby:
>> On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>>> I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some
>>> off topic threads can contain interesting stuff.
>>
>> The u
On 07/10/11 07:32, Weaver wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:15:07 -0400
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
>> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
>>> difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
Agreed (Stan), but unfortunately,
Weaver wrote:
> The point has often been made that this list is for Debian 'Users' and
> not therefore strictly Debian subject matter. I think a bit of social
> interaction does have the tendency to create 'community' which is
> Debian's strength, so it could be viewed as productive.
While this is
On Friday 07 October 2011 10:44:29 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> I think its a question of off topic versus on topic ratio. Due to
> threading feature in KMail its easy for me to ignore off topic stuff, but
> when it exceeds a certain amount I tend to get annoyed with it, cause then
> its more diff
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby:
> On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some
> > off topic threads can contain interesting stuff.
>
> The ubuntu-users list is suffering the same...
> Some
On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some off
topic threads can contain interesting stuff.
The ubuntu-users list is suffering the same...
Some people wanted Linux (via the distros) to be popular, now we suffer
the dr
Am Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2011 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:
> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
> > difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
> >
> > Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and
> > st
I totally agree with what Weaver said.
On Oct 6, 2011 4:31 PM, "Weaver" wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:15:07 -0400
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
>> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> > All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
>> > difficult to assist those who actually need help with
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:15:07 -0400
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
> > difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
> >
> > Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and
> >
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and stop
this juvenile OT nonsense.
I personally look for who the sender is and
On 10/06/2011 06:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
If you are using an MUA that supports threading, then I don't see the
issue. It's all contained in one thread, and it d
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and stop
this juvenile OT nonsense.
What's your problem? It's interesting stuf
All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more
difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian.
Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and stop
this juvenile OT nonsense.
--
Stan
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