The Omniscientist posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:38:31 -0500:
> Most of the off topic chat is between people who know eachother and > just want to catch up a little or something like that, Said as someone that does little IRC or IM either one, but... Perhaps a timely suggestion to take it to IM or email (or even this newsgroup/mailing-list, where skipping an entire topic if it doesn't interest you is easy) then, in such cases, might be appropriate? Still, I'd hate the group to get like the Gentoo group, which is just too big. My problem there was I'm just too interested in too /many/ subjects, so I ended up reading most of the several hundred messages a day, and that just got too much to keep up with. I suppose, as users switch from x86 to x86_64, this group will eventually become the big one, but hopefully by then I'll have developed better coping mechanisms, or moved on to the next "new" arch. As I said, I don't do IRC much if at all, but I suppose much the same thing is going on there, only it evidently happened sooner. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
