On Fri,25.Jul.08, 19:39:32, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu,24.Jul.08, 15:59:49, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > >> I'd like to propose a special mailing list for topics that are off > > >> topic elsewhere. > > > > > > There are already 100, or more, mailing lists specified on Debian > > > Mailing Lists. Some of them are pretty dead. > > > > > > What would adding yet another list, which is "offtopic" to Debian, > > > help here? > > > > IMO it strengthens the community. > > > > >> A separate OT list fragments d-u, pointlessly. If OT is your > > >> problem, learn to use your mail tools instead. > > > > > > Exactly. > > > > I want to have a separate list because I want *more* not less > > offtopic. I also understand that too much OT on d-u can hurt the > > usefulness of the list, hence the proposal for an offtopic list. > > What sort of things would even be discussed on such a list? > > Almost any topic related to Debian already has its own list or a list > that is close enough to stand in for it; -curiosa covers almost > everything that is merely tangentally associated with Debian. Maybe I interpret the description of -curiosa differently.
,---- | Funny thing from and with the project, funny quotes, discussions irc | communication and fortune cookies. Some kind of (de.)alt.netdigest for | Debian-related stuff. `---- It's still related to Debian and not suitable to discuss Sponge Bob, growing broccoli or if color should be spelled with or without 'u'. > Things that aren't associated with Debian at all should be discussed > using lists, forums or similar which are hosted elsewhere where > whatever is being discussed is actually on topic. > > The problems with people being off topic on debian-user aren't going > to be resolved by the creation of another list, as discussion lists > already exist in the great wide world where most any topic is actually > on-topic. If people are being off topic on debian-user, they need to > be informed of fora where their discussion is actually on topic, and > people need to stop replying.[1] > > > Don Armstrong > > 1: It's not like this sort of thing doesn't happen in almost any > forum; in most Debian lists it happens, people are informed, and it's > not much of a problem. Again, I think this could *strengthen the community*. It's not about the topic (because it has been seen that the topics can cover just about everything), but about the people. IMO there is room for a list where *Debian users* can talk about things totally unrelated to Debian, without bothering the normal traffic on topic lists. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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