A PLUG member donated a
Dell TrueMobile Wireless Base Station for use at the Devel Meetings.
The catch is that we have no power brick or manuals. The manuals are
available online so that is not a problem. The problem is power.
I cannot find any information about what power goes into this
Jon M. Hanson wrote:
I've heard them advertise that on the local radio and/or TV stations. I
didn't see anything on their website about it though.
That's my question. The website doesn't show anything less than $45 a
month.
Alan
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(I don't know enough about what I am trying to do to know if I am using
the right words in my question. This is basic stuff for you
professional network admins.)
We have a new server that will take over the services from an old
server. The data will be copied from the old to the new so that the
Brant Evans wrote:
My company is looking to hire several systems engineers. Attached is a
copy of the job description.
[[attached Global Support Engineer Job Description.doc file]]
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Alan
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Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote:
I like these laws even better:
George's Laws on Programming
1. There is no such thing as a programming bug. A bug was the moth that
Grace Hopper pulled out of her vacuum tube computer. What programmers
like to call bugs are defects - defects in workmanship -
I am using a new motherboard from Gigabyte. The Award Modular BIOS on
this board sets up a 2113 LBA Host Protected Area[1] on the attached
hard disk drive during boot. I don't want it to do that!
There does not appear to be any option in the BIOS settings to disable
this feature. Nor have I
The PLUG East Side Meeting will be held THIS EVENING, Thursday, July 12th.
What: PLUG East Side Meeting
When: July 12th, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa
(See East Side Meeting information on the web site at
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/meetings/info)
Topics:
* F-Spot photo
keith smith wrote:
I would have never thought:
/Linux User Groups dying out? LUG leaders report that attendance is
down — but mailing list traffic is still good. Do we still need LUGs
http://www.linux.com/feature/118046, given the ease of installation
and ubiquitousness of online
Darrin Chandler wrote:
Hi!
A while back I remember Alan Dayley asking about podcasts with Linux or
Open Source topics. Well, it seems that there is one called FLOSS Weekly
that I just found out about from a recent post by Randall L. Schwartz.
http://www.twit.tv/floss
Thanks, Darrin
Gerald Thurman wrote:
I was wearing the t-shirt that reads:
$ cd /pub
$ more beer
I encountered a person who said I don't understand your t-shirt.
I tried explaining it by placing a Windows-like GUI around it, but
they responded with I still don't get it. They wanted to learn
more
Josef Lowder wrote:
.
This is very helpful, Alan. Now I realize that I had not thought
this thru sufficiently. So, a couple of follow-up questions below.
I will probably want to try both paths, but for now, I'd just like
to start with the simplest path.
I'll download DVD Slideshow
der.hans wrote:
moin moin,
I wanted to look at the binary content for a pdf, so I lessed it. I got
the text of the pdf. Hmm, type $file.pdf claimed it's pdf.
cat $file.pdf | less showed it to be pdf.
Apparently less can now produce the text from pdf files :).
I verified this works on
Nathan Aubrey wrote:
I am looking for a handheld scanner that works in linux. I have a catalog
system with barcodes and I want to be able to scan the barcode and have the
computer read the number associated with it. Does anyone use anything like
this?
Any help appreciated!
Many bar code
I second Joe's advice.
My wife's Toshiba with all Intel chipset (wireless, video, sound all
Intel) took the Linux install without a hitch. There was an extra
binary blob to install for the wireless but that was easy.
Alan
Joe Zagar wrote:
I have had great success with both Toshiba and HP
Randy Melder wrote:
Sounds like Kurt would be better off with Windows... Whooops! Did I say
that?!?
I doubt that!
Kurt may be too modest so I'll post this for him
http://people.kde.org/kurt.html
http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kde/quotes/Kurt_Granroth.html
Oh, and http://www.granroth.org/
der.hans wrote:
I also tried to attend the Red Hat Society luncheon on the cruise but
missed it. Oh well, RHS isn't really my crowd anyway :).
Especially that you are now a married man. Have to cut back on crashing
women's parties! ;^)
Alan
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Nathan Aubrey wrote:
Do any of you use iTunes? How do you deal with it on linux or what do you do?
iTunes, the music sales download service and it's client software, does
not run directly on Linux. I have seen claims that it runs under wine.
I don't use it. I don't buy DRM music.
(I buy CDs
The PLUG East Side Meeting will be held, Thursday, August 9th.
What: PLUG East Side Meeting
When: August 9th, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa
(See East Side Meeting information on the web site at
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/meetings/info)
Topics: GNU/Screen: What it is and how
My photos of the East Side Meeting are now in the pool.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/
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keith smith wrote:
With all that is going on I am thinking of chaging registrars. It seems
they all have their problems and horror stories.
Any suggestions?
http://easydns.com
Not the cheapest. But...
- They have a lightweight but very thorough admin interface.
- Very good tutorials[1]
Just stop. All of us.
There are at least two sides to every story and any discussion in this
forum will not resolve anything. It is off-topic and a waste of bandwidth.
Deleting this thread form the archive has been discussed. I make no
promises in that regard. All participants in this
I have a presentation created in a well known presentation program. It
was created with a font I don't have on my computer. It imports into
Impress very cleanly, including animations. However, I don't have the
same font as the original author. Impress picks a similar font that is
just slightly
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
On 8/29/07, *keith smith* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Add PLUG reserves the right to suspend or remove any account not in
compliance.
And for my reference, WHO is PLUG?
Straight to the point. WE are PLUG.
There is a
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
Honestly, I've been through this with one group already here in
Phoenix. Usually if something happens someone doesn't like, they evoke
the hidden and mysterious powers of moderation. Behind this somewhat
ridiculous fig-leaf is some callow sheepish dude who has the
? Where is the love? The community?
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
On 8/29/07, *Alan Dayley* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Craig White wrote:
Microsoft True Type font perhaps?
Have you checked out
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
I have those installed already. The font involved is not in that package.
But, that's a good thing to point to.
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We have installed a moderation module and opened all authenticated users
to submit on the PLUG website. If you'd like to submit an story, go for it.
We will work out more categories and structure as submissions come in.
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Dennis Kibbe wrote:
The font that you didn't have is Gill Sans from the Monotype Foundry
(Yes, this fount was originality cast in metal.) You can read the
history of the font here:
http://www.monotypefonts.com/Library/HiddenGems.asp?show=gillsans.
I found the original presentation looked
Craig White wrote:
Generally, the first place to check/change is in the 'Format' menu =
Styles and Formatting' F11
On a Word Processing or Spreadsheet document, it is likely that changing
the style called 'Default' would change the entire document but a
presentation document doesn't use a
Craig White wrote:
the closest available font would of course depend upon which fonts you
have installed...there is no one correct answer.
You are correct for the general case. I am curious about my specific case.
In other words, Impress knows what font it picked as closest available
To put an end to this story, I have my answer but in a disappointing way.
I joined the #OpenOffice.org channel on irc.freenode.net and posed the
question. Here is the log:
[16:40] alandd I imported a .ppt file. It looks great except the font
it specifies is not on my computer. The properties
When you select the text to change it's properties in Impress, it
continues to maintain the font name saved in the data file. It also
prints the message at the bottom of the dialog explaining that the
currently set font is not installed.
In reality I think this is a good thing. Since, at that
David Munson wrote:
speaking of compiz and beryl, i'm going to have a bunch of questions
about the differences between the two, and configuring them to, as was
said above, turn windows into paper airplanes.
i'm really new to linux, so please don't tar and feather me if i ask
the same
From the plug-devel email list.
Virtualization is probably a topic that more than just us developers are
interested hearing about.
Alan
Original Message
Subject: [PLUG-Devel] Ann: Devel Meeting, Thursday, September 6th
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:16:49 -0700
From: Alan Dayley
Mike Garfias wrote:
I looked at unixshell, but they're full up. And tektonic is doing
virtuozzo or whatever it is.
A question for you experienced people...
As long as your virtual server is running your OS of choice, you should
be agnostic about what virtual machine engine provides your
Mike Garfias wrote:
I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be
a great variation in the service levels (both price and in what the
machines offer).
The other requirement is that I have to run debian on there. No rpm-
based distros for me.
Anyone have any
What maximum number of wireless networking clients can a Linksys WRT54GL
reasonably support? The clients would be doing office stuff like file
sharing, WWW access, email and the like.
I'm just looking for a rule of thumb planning number.
Alan
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Bill Lindley wrote:
Alan Dayley wrote:
The clients would be doing office stuff like file sharing,
I'd be concerned about file sharing over a wireless network, because of
the potential of corruption when airplanes fly overhead, and because
anyone within a few hundred feet will be able
We have an excellent main presentation lined up for the East Side
Meeting on Thursday. It will be on Xen Virtualization. (Look for a
full announcement very soon!)
However we'd like to have one or two short presentations to maintain our
magazine format. Something that is more desktop-ish and
Alan Dayley wrote:
We have an excellent main presentation lined up for the East Side
Meeting on Thursday. It will be on Xen Virtualization. (Look for a
full announcement very soon!)
However we'd like to have one or two short presentations to maintain our
magazine format. Something
The PLUG East Side Meeting will be held tomorrow, Thursday, September 13th.
What: PLUG East Side Meeting
When: September 13th, 2007 @ 7:00pm
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa
(See East Side Meeting information on the web site at
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/meetings/info)
Topics:
* More GIMP
der.hans wrote:
moin moin,
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/09/12/1747202.shtml
Is the driver being released next week the one from ATI/AMD or is that
when the X team figures it'll have something ready based on all this
documentation?
As I recall it is the basic sample driver
Shawn Badger wrote:
I have a Palm TX and I really like it, except I having some problems
getting the sync to work under Fedora Core 6. I am still playing with
getting it work every so often, but I haven't spent a lot of time on it.
Broken synchronization with Palm devices was one of the
Craig White wrote:
of course the real fix for this is to put it into an old grocery bag
along with at least 3 chicken feathers and seal it shut. Attach a 10
foot rope to the bag, take it out on the front yard, swing it around and
around over your head while chanting 'Om' and it should take
Craig White wrote:
1. I have found various documentation of how to configure my Sendmail
server to *listen* on a port other than 25 but not where I can tell it
to *send* on a different port. Where do I configure it to relay to a
port other than 25?
presuming that you are talking about
Craig White wrote:
you get the submission port (587) for free (no real effort) by the
instructions I was giving you (listening). I would expect that you can
instruct sendmail to use it for sending without too much difficulty (but
that I am not certain of the methodology).
Exactly. This
Craig White wrote:
it seems pretty absurd because the whole point of exchanging mail is to
use well-known services.
Yes, it is absurd. The whole situation, were I to tell the entire
story, is absurd. But, I'm not the IT department and must live within
the choices of others.
for data
I found how to change the sending port:
http://sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.39 (Duh. Going to the project
documentation instead of wading through Google search hits.)
Now to understand the authentication part...
It appears that the access.db (and therefore access) file is involved
with
JT Moree wrote:
wouldn't happen to be port 465 (ESMTP)?
As someone else mentioned using a proxy might be a better way to do it.
If you know perl look at qpsmtpd. It may be more than you need and
probably won'd do exactly what you want but it uses plugins. Worst case
you can write your
Technomage-hawke wrote:
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:56, Craig White wrote:
If you go, wear white shirts to blend in (and leave the Mountain Dew
behind).
;-)
don't forget the white ON black nametags (so common with mormons - I should
I know, I *WAS* one once.)
:)
I don't see
Please see:
http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20070610.164854.6d59d633.en.html
(As others mentioned, Gmail has it's own behavior that may change a
user's perception of how this all works.)
Alan
Dan Lund wrote:
You won't see it posted... only others will.
The list doesn't echo
http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/
Alan
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Alan
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I think this Flikr account is awesome
Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Darrin Chandler wrote:
The *specs* for the Intel video stuff is open, I believe, and if there's
a problem with the driver then the Linux developers can fix it. Not so
for the others.
Not just the specs but the drivers. GPLv2 and MIT licenses.
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/
Posted to the PLUG Flickr group.
Everyone is invited to post PLUG event photos to the group. I don't
always take pictures and there is no reason that more than one person
can't take pictures of the same event.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/
Alan
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Craig White wrote:
When Fedora 8 gets released and not a single person comments...
It was discussed a the East Side Meeting yesterday.
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While I don't believe all or even most have moved on, I did move on
about a year and a half ago. I moved on to OpenSUSE and may go back to
Fedora because of the Novell-MS deal.
I have no doubt that Fedora 8 is a good distribution. The new sound
system looks pretty cool from what I have read.
Josef Lowder wrote:
Out of the top 100 Linux Distros, here are the top 8 in terms
of interest/activity with the most recent hit counts:
1 PCLinuxOS 2924
2 Ubuntu 2313
3 openSUSE1528
4 Fedora 1280
5 Sabayon 1182
6 Mint1066
7 Debian 844
8
I want to purchase a double-sided marker board on wheels. (I was
surprised at the cost!) Something like this (watch the line wrap):
http://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalog/product_info/cPath/CAT3_CAT131/pfam_id/PFAM80/products_id/PRO452
You'd think a metro area the size of Phoenix would have a
Vaughn Treude wrote:
Craig,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, it's old. I was hoping (perhaps in vain)
that I could solve this with some kind of mode switch. Or maybe this
drive is on its way out. I'm always afraid that upgrading will break my
other stuff. :-)
From dmesg, I see these
I need help finding a vendor for a motherboard with particular
requirements. The application requires high I/O through-put on PCI-e
(PCI Express) adapter boards. Therefore the hard requirements are:
- At least four slots for PCI-e x8 adapters. x16 is, of course, acceptable
- At least two CPU
Matt Graham wrote:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7983/penguintree2zj0.jpg
Strong magnets, stuffed penguins, and not having any real ornaments.
Fun!
Thanks for the smile, Matt.
Alan
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Nathan Aubrey wrote:
do any of you have any experience with tablet pcs? I'm looking to get one
soon, but I'm curious which ones work well with linux. Or work at all.
How much functionality do you get?
Personally, I have no clue. However:
A good list to start from, maybe:
Dazed_75 wrote:
Which wubi-installer did you use? They exist for different versions
of ubuntu. Last I looked the version for ubuntu 7.10 was still in
beta. I would be suspicious of the ubuntu version as well. My
experience trying 7.10 on a variety of machines seems to indicate it
does not
Michael Havens wrote:
my appologies if not!
The list usually slows a bit around the end-of-year holidays.
Alan
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We are migrating the PLUG web site to a new server this weekend. There
will be disruption of access to the site, maybe as long as a day or two,
if something bad happens. Please plan accordingly.
The PLUG Steering Committee wants to emphasize our gratitude to Integrum
Technologies for donating
Come-on now! Journey Don't Stop Believin?? I drove my mom crazy
playing that 45 RPM over and over again so I could play my air-drum set!
Seriously, if the RIAA wants to put space-shifting on the table, I think
they will loose twice: Once as more and more people abandon their
products and again
Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
It is great listening to this list. We get to hear speculation, tangents,
semantics, and the occasional injection of fiction stated as fact. It must
be a holiday and nothing is going on.
Happy New Year!
Gilbert
I'm trying to decide if you are joking,
Oh, no! Don't open that bucket-o-worms! ;^)
Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
We can always talk about the proper way to reply to a post. Top or Bottom?
Gilbert
feel free to jump in...inanity can be participatory.
rock on
Craig
We can always talk about the proper way to reply to a
Eric Shubes wrote:
Nice little exercise. I'm sure there are a myriad of ways to do this.
This is what I came up with (from directory containing history.dat):
$ tr -d '\\\n' history.dat | tr ')' '\n' | grep =http:// | cut -d = -f 2-
history.urls
It basically does this:
1) strips out all
Alan Dayley wrote:
We are migrating the PLUG web site to a new server this weekend. There
will be disruption of access to the site, maybe as long as a day or two,
if something bad happens. Please plan accordingly.
We are happy to announce that the group web site is migrated to the new
server
Craig White wrote:
I gather this story got lots of traction today - someone told me that he
saw CNN carry the story this morning but I saw none of it and just got
home myself.
You can count on local news to completely botch the story - CNN too.
I don't like to watch the news. Nearly any
Shawn Badger wrote:
I found this while aimlessly surfing around and thought the group may like it:
http://www.gdruckman.com/2007/12/22/diy-paper-tux/
OK, I killed some time yesterday making one of these.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alandd/2177214382/in/pool-plug/
A bit sloppy but, now he
der.hans wrote:
alternative infrastructures:
alternative platforms:
Do either of these encompass alternative hardware like embedded stuff
or special purpose servers that run Linux?
Alan
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Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:45 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
I think I remember this happening about a year ago with Negroponte
claiming MS is working with OLPC and then MS denying it. I think
Negroponte needs to wait for partners to make announcements with him (or
evilly before
would you like?
Michael
Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the need to upgrade the RAM in an older computer. It is an Intel
Desktop Board D810EMO
(http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d810emo) and maxes
out at 256MB RAM. So I need a single 256MB RAM module
I have posted my January, 2008 East Side Meeting photos to the Flickr group.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/
I encourage anyone that wishes to take photos too. I need not be the
only one doing it. If you don't want to post to Flickr, just let us
know where to go look. I'd love to see more
Adtron is looking for an embedded software engineer. The position
involves Linux and lots of other embedded tasks.
All the details are at:
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?ipath=SJPAJDjob_did=J7X11R600XQCNTVWP0H
Contact me off list if you have any questions.
Alan
Nathan Aubrey wrote:
Howdy Pluggers,
After 15 years of linux, today is my last day. Though I plan to continue
linux
use on my personal laptop, my professional computer career is ending
tomorrow, but since I won't be at work, it really is today. I'm venturing off
to a new career!
Michael Havens wrote:
My dad got a new laptop (toshiba satelite)because his hd (?) died. BIOS loads
and then it says:
'Load Error!
'Press a key to reboot.'
The HD ia an HTS424040m9at00-(pm).
That'd be a Hitachi IDE (parallel ATA) drive.
Michael Havens wrote:
I forgot to mention that I wish to be able to use the firewall remotely.
save files to it... etc.
Don't use IPCop then. It is not designed for that use. Something like
Clark Connect would be better for that. But...
- There is a learning curve about ports and
Craig White wrote:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece
Lede...
Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely
monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.
Nice.
That's certainly not the way to get
I have a friend with a loose power connector on his laptop. I probably
just needs to be opened up and soldered back in place. The places he
has contacted about doing this simply offer to replace the motherboard
without even looking if that is needed.
Does anyone know of a computer service or
Richard Wilson wrote:
I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages...
My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's
on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format.
I need to pull in the video files and edit out empty space and
Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
Newer versions of kino should import your video in non-raw formats --
but it will take a while to import. If not, you can always use ffmpeg
or mencoder before-hand...
$ ffmpeg -i foo.mpg foo.raw
You are very correct, Kristian. My wife and I have done just
Richard Wilson wrote:
I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages...
My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's
on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format.
I need to pull in the video files and edit out empty space and
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
Without a doubt- the Linux world just made a major shift towards all
things Google. I would be interested to know if Yahoo is moving to
.NET.
Any other prognostications out there?
I really enjoy my Flickr account. I just got my family and friends used
to going
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
On 2/5/08, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I find it interesting that Britney Spears doctor visits make
headline news, but not a peep from the media about the apparent
deliberate cutoff of entire countries communications.
yes, that's what happens
Joshua Zeidner wrote:
Alan,
unfortunately, not too many 'tech guys' understand the Media biz
all too well. I'll try to put this into concise terms here:
consolidation = 'information richness'--.
in other words, if media is owned by few- then obviously the
overall
Josh Coffman wrote:
I don't know if I've posted this here before, but I need a flash
resource. I'm advising someone on an idea and we need some expert
advise on possible flash related solutions.
Please send me any references you'd recommend. looking for someone to
offer suggestions and
Jon M. Hanson wrote:
Michael Havens wrote:
How do I get YAHOO! (and others) to work through a router... I looked
through all the settings and that didn't tell me a thing.
You shouldn't have to do anything as far as settings on the router go.
Don't do anything to your firewall. Jon is
February 2008 5:07 am, Alan Dayley wrote:
Don't do anything to your firewall. Jon is right, you don't need to do
that for instant messengers. Are you having problems?
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Subject: Ann: PLUG Devel Meeting, Thursday, February 7th
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:32:17 -0700
From: Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: List for Linux development and software engineering discussions.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tomorrow
Alan Dayley wrote:
(Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4415+E.+Cotton+Center+Blvd.+Phoenix+AZ+85040ie=UTF8ll=33.402803,-111.986496spn=0.008473,0.015535t=hz=16iwloc=addrom=1)
The building in question is actually south east of the green arrow
marker. It is the mostly square building directly
Craig White wrote:
enforcement is an ugly thing which creates ill feelings and I think you
are assuming the good without actually recognizing the bad that will
come from it.
The issue of OT is more from the lack of traffic of other things and
that's not really an issue...this isn't a high
Craig White wrote:
list nazi's are the single most destructive force to a mail list
The moment you create another list and then decide that discussion A
doesn't belong on this list and it must be moved to another list is the
day the list nazi's take over.
A risk, for sure.
You are saying
Judd Pickell wrote:
Seems a great idea, but how can you be sure that reg posters or even
new posters who don't know any better won't OT post anyways?
There is no surety. In fact, off topic posts will continue. But, with
a place to send them, we can more strongly enforce the topic here. (See
First, please do not take this as a rebuke of anyone. I follow and even
contribute to may of the off topic discussions in the list. I just
think we should give them their own home.
Second, I think the social non-Linux aspects of the group are
important. I know I learn to respect other PLUGgers
Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 09:59 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
I propose that we create another email list. It would be called
plug-offtopic and would be the place for everything not Linux/FS/OSS
related. Things in the news, politics not directly related to our
focus, car problems
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I am also unsubscribing. Goodbye ...
Ugh! This is not good.
Thanks for the time and contributions, Jeremy.
Alan
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