Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 16:26 schrieb Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38 > > schrieb Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>: > > > >> On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >>>> Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with gentoo or > >>>> computers at all. If you wanna discuss the delightfulness of war > >>>> machines then please to this at another place and not on this > >>>> list. > >>> Allow me to introduce your to my good friend "Delete" and his > >>> lovely wife "button" > >> Or you could filter anything with OT in the subject to /dev/null. > >> It's not like this thread is masquerading as something relevant. > > > > That's not the point. If you wanna talk about stuff that's > > apparently absolut useless to almost every member of this ML, then > > you should do this at another place. Especially discussions with > > politically and or military background are IMHO absolutely > > inappropriate. > > > > But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Why shouldn't we talk here about > > everything that cross one's mind? We could mark it as OT in the > > subject line, so it should be no problem for everyone. Maybe we > > should discuss the local daily weather? I think, that's a pretty > > good idea as it would increase the noise level of this list even > > more. What do you think? > > > > > > > > > Just a FYI. I have in the past asked questions about Windoze XP on > this very list. Why, I'm not joining a windoze mailing list for just > one question and I know a lot of people on this list know about > windoze as well. I have seen other topics raised on this list > before. It's not often but it does happen. I see Gentoo threads > that don't interest me at all and I just mark them as read and move > right along but I don't tell folks that I don't want to see them. I > could start with systemd. If I see systemd in the subject, I mark it > read and move right along usually without reading even the first > post. Why, I don't use systemd so I am certainly not interested in > it. There are other threads that I do the same thing with.
That's right. But all examples you've mentioned are computer related topics and maybe useful for anyone on this list.
