On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:27:18AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Who cares how often they've posted when their complaint is just? > > I feel this thread borders on off-topic: it meets the legal part > but not clearly the debian part. Personally, I killfile rather than > complain too often about off-topic-but-related threads, but some > don't have killfiles and flodding them out of the list weakens us. > > But: where is more appropriate? gnu-misc might have been OK for > this one and freeculture lists for some others, but in general > there's nothing serving a debian-legal-related purpose well.
I find the peripheral discussions just about as interesting as the core topics of the list. They're so common that they've become a secondary use of the list. As you say, there's often no better place, and besides, when an on-topic thread spawns an off-topic one, you can't simply "move" the off-topic thread to another list; that just doesn't work--most people aren't going to subscribe to another list just to follow a subthread, so it just fragments the thread. (In some cases--though not d-legal--the related but off-topic threads spawned by on-topic threads are the only reason I subscribe to a list.) I manage to ignore threads I don't care about without even using a killfile (and there are plenty of those on d-devel). I just don't see a problem being fixed by squelching useful peripheral discussions. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
