On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Monday 20 August 2007 15:03, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > A [EMAIL PROTECTED] list has been requested by me (#425439) and > > Martin "Joey" Schulze (#427218), but nothing has happened yet. Maybe the > > project could start one and migrate later to lists.d.o if it attracts > > sufficient interest. > > > > I think this could also be an opportunity to attract some very valuable > > subscribers from debian-user. If you read d-u you might remember the big > > discussion around offtopic posts a few months ago. As a result the > > offtopic discussions have dropped to almost zero. This is not a bad > > thing considering the high volume of d-u, but IMHO it's missing the > > community spirit and this is what we are trying to promote, isn't it? ;) > > I'd agree that we could technically easily host that mailinglist as > part of the d-community project on alioth, but I wonder whats the > debian listmasters final decision is on this, as I dont think it's > wise to create this mailinglist on alioth now and then move it to > lists.debian.org in a short timeframe. > > So, debian-listmasters, what's your stance?
My own personal concern is that there isn't much of a real topic for such an off topic list, and almost anything discussed there would be better off on fora specifically geared for such discussions. In the few places where it would be at least tangentally related to Debian, -curiosa is probably the right list. Another concern is that almost any time that something off topic gets discussed on Debian mailing lists, it's extremely difficult to get the discussion to move to a forum where it is on topic. Don Armstrong [Not speaking for [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). -- Matt Welsh http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
