On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:06, Gordon Findlay wrote: > Read that again: freedom is indivisible. Indeed that's true, but the question we are debating is whether we, as a group, wish to extend that freedom to members from whom excessively frequent postings seem to indicate a very different and divergent point of view of the world from that which the mainstream CLUG community members normally see things.
The 'problem' for Linux groups is simply that 'getting it to go' is now virtually as simple as falling off the proverbial log, and the need for a helping hand is no longer anything like as necessary as it was only five years ago. Thus if new comers to Linux come to this list and hope to find a solution to a somewhat esoteric problem and see a continuum of postings somewhat laking in literacy skills about irrelevant politics, they'll just unsubscribe and find the solution to their particular problem elsewhere. My own opinion is that it is probably nearing the time for CLUG and the linux-users list to be given a decent coup-de-grace [1] followed by a wake [2]. For me that's a shame because I have made many good friends because of CLUG. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_grâce [2] a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" ( Princeton Wordnet ) -- CS
