On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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'.
None of those things are appropriate to discuss on Debian lists, ever.
If people want to talk about spongebob, they should use
www.unitedspongebob.com/forums/index.php or similar. If they want to
talk about broccoli, they should use any one of a number of gardening
lists. They're more likely to find people who share their love of a
topic and are willing to discuss it.
> Again, I think this could *strengthen the community*.
How? I personally can't imagine how an off topic mailing list is going
to magically "strengthen the community". Who would even bother to
subscribe to such a list? [If someone wants random off-topic mails
delivered to your mailbox, I'm fairly certain they can cherry pick
enough messages off of gmane to satisfy their cravings.]
Debian mailing lists and the people who subscribe to them are all
united by their desire to discuss and hear about Debian and things
related to Debian. Things that aren't are best discussed in places
where they're on topic.
Anyway, without significant evidence to the contrary, I'm personally
against creating this list. I don't see any extension of any argument
brought to date changing my view. [That said, I wouldn't have a
problem with it if it ended up that a mailing list under the
debian-community was created; strong usage of it and a reduction in
totally off-topic threads on debian-user would be significant evidence
of its utiltity even though I'd personally never subscribe or post on
it.]
Don Armstrong
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Culture in Modern Society"; 1964
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