Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 19:12 schrieb Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > But windoze is not Gentoo. If I knew that several people would help > me with a car issue because at some point several mentioned they have > or had that car, I'd ask a car question if it was basically a once or > twice thing or at least rare. > > This isn't the first time a topic has started or ended up being not > related to Gentoo or even computers.
You are really tenacious. :-) It seems that I should lower my expectations regarding what's on-topic and what's not. Lets say, every topic is fine as long as the poster asks a question about a technical problem he has and as long as the topic has nothing to do with weapons. Is that definition ok for you? But I'm merely a regular member of this ML and this is just my personal opinion, so never mind me. Talk about what you want, e.g. (historical) Tanks, (historical) Submarines, (historical) H-Bombs... Sorry for this tinge of sarcasm. ;-) Maybe we should finish the discussion here because it is getting off-topic more and more. :-)
