Wouldn't mind seeing such a group and would subscribe to it. Parish wrote: > > OK, fellow Mozillians, what would it take to start a general purpose NG > where nothing (legal) is OT? > > There is currently a thread, "Warum hat Mozilla 0.9.9 so viele neue > Bugs? Ein Sabotuer" running in n.p.m.general which has become a thread > about the German language. This is totally OT for any Moz NG but is > (IMHO) a very interesting thread anyway. > > Sooner or later, in threads such as this, someone will cry, "OT", but > there is nowhere to take it where it is On-topic. > > The Internet is an international community, especially in the Open > Source world, and being able to have interesting, informed, intellectual > discussions with people from other countries, cultures, and with > different mother-tongues, is fascinating, educational, and generally > broadens ones horizons. > > I subscribe to several FreeBSD mailing lists one of which is .chat. Over > the years there have been many threads there which have been totally OT > re FreeBSD but were extremely interesting nonetheless; wine, > language/grammar, geography[1], the price of petrol (US:gas), US gun law > (long threads those :-)). > > For the most part those who frequent the n.p.m.* NGs are sensible, > intelligent people with whom one can have an informed discussion so I > believe we should have a NG where "anything (legal) goes" > > Comments? Observations? Counter-proposals? > > Flames > /dev/null > > Regards, > > Parish > > [1] As one Australian poster said in one thread, "I have studied a map > of Australia and can safely state that Windows N.T. does not exist" :-) > > -- > "I would rather gnaw my leg off, pack the bleeding stump with salt, > and run in a circle on broken glass than have to deal with any > Microsoft product on a regular basis." > -- Dan Zimmerman, > Vanderbilt University, when asked about Windows NT. > > Anti-spam e-mail address, change _AT_, sorry for the inconvenience
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