On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM songbird wrote: > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 11:36:26AM +0100, wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 02:45:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > On 11/2/25 1:35 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> > >> > >> This would be too broad, IMO. Don't forget that Debian is a volunteer > >> organisation, its infrastructure running off donations. Would you find > >> it OK to (ab) use that infrastructure to provide support for users of > >> highly commercial endeavours, just because their (well resourced!) > >> overlords skimp on that? (Examples: Amazon, Ubuntu, Oracle, diverse > >> Androids)? > >> > >> So I think it's OK to be also able to say "stop: this is an Oracle > >> Linux question. Please go to their channels). > >> > >> It's only the "strict" part I'm not friends with. > >> > > > > OK - I'll revise it to "Strictly, discussion of non-Debian-distributions > > is off-topic on Debian-user" > > > > It's better if we don't get thirty five questions a month about > > [Debian-derivative] XYZ and can say "Go and look on their forums > > (which can be found here) and if they don't have any support, please > > feel free to come back to Debian and show us the problem on Debian" > > > > We shouldn't have to be the last resort for other distribution users > > who don't necessarily read past "Debian" in "Debian-derived" :) > > > > All the very best, as ever, > > > > Andy > > thanks Andy, i think the word "strictly" is too harsh and would > rather see "discouraged" or even "strongly discouraged"... > > personally, i have no problem just skipping over things i see > as OT or when i simply just do not have the time to reply (which > is quite often true for me this time of the year anyways).
Same here. Some people seem to find it too hard to just press the delete key > > > songbird >
