On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Linux-Fan <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Many people will read your mail long after it was sent when the > content has already become meaningless. > 2. Mailing lists are archived and the archives are intended to help > people who stumble across the same issue later. A thread which is > needlessly extended by messages without important content might make > it harder to follow the thread to find the solution especially when > it is not marked by a "[solved]" or a final summary. > 3. Mails are heavier than IRC statements (full headers, signatures, > and quotes from the previous thread are included). This means that it > will cost people who log in after a "conversation" on a mailing list > has taken place will have to download a lot of messages of similar > sizes to those which contain real information. Posting a simple "OK" > costs about as much bandwidth (if you quote properly) as a normal > answer (like this message). > 4. I am sure there are more reasons which I can just not think of now. > GIYF.
> On the other hand, I do not mind anyone posting non-technical messages > to this offtopic list because that is it's intention. First of all, thanks for this explanation. Secondly I just thought that it is our life...and I just hoped to confabulate non-technical also...you probably are right that chat clients are suited for that purpose. IOW, these list discuss much of the technical aspects only...But its okay.... I am glad to hear from you "I do not mind anyone posting non-technical messages to this offtopic list because that is it's intention.". _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
