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'll add my $0.25 CDN and say that, yes, it would be nice to have
somewhere to shift topics when they go off. Keeps threads cleaner, too.
. . .
Brian
--
Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled in darkness. In the juvescence of the year
Came Christ the tiger
-- T. S. Eliot, 'Gerontion'
