On Sat,26.Jul.08, 10:31:25, Don Armstrong wrote: > 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
Hello Holger, Is debian-community still an option for a debian-offtopic list? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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