Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 13:16:43, Camaleón wrote: Mmm, nope... what made you think that? Anyway, it would be a redundancy but nothing that hurts. I can't tell because I'm unaware about the rules of the offtopic mailing list. The rules are basically: Be excellent to each other! but putting

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:16:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: Ah, you finally got it! Now you see why someone would ask an OT here? :-) Grin I have always got it!, my point is regarding YOU *encouraging* that behaviour. OP: Paraphrase: Just mark it [OT] and it's OK (side note: yes, there are

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:47:47 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:16:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: Ah, you finally got it! Now you see why someone would ask an OT here? :-) Grin I have always got it!, my point is regarding YOU *encouraging* that behaviour. OP:

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 08:03:06, Chris Bannister wrote: Are you suggesting that some posts to d-community-offtopic be marked as [OT] ? Of course, Debian stuff is offtopic on -offtopic :p Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:03:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:38:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:06:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: But, it **IS** ON TOPIC if they are not looking for Oracle support, so marking it [OT] is counter productive.

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:32:14AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:19:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:46:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: But I wouldn't post there how to configure an Oracle database with the current Debian stable. Hope you see the

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:06:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:32:14AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:19:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:46:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: But I wouldn't post there how to configure an Oracle

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:38:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:06:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: But, it **IS** ON TOPIC if they are not looking for Oracle support, so marking it [OT] is counter productive. And when is that to happen? What's the line that makes the

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:46:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: But I wouldn't post there how to configure an Oracle database with the current Debian stable. Hope you see the slightly difference between a brocolli and Oracle. Umm, I think so. :) I hope you see Oracle support doesn't come under

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:19:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:46:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: But I wouldn't post there how to configure an Oracle database with the current Debian stable. Hope you see the slightly difference between a brocolli and Oracle. Umm, I

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 16:46:31, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:45:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: How about suggesting the use of: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic instead?

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:46:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:45:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: How about suggesting the use of: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic

Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:45:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: How about suggesting the use of: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic instead? It does not apply for the case we are treating here: