On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Peter Hyde wrote:
> The longer a thread gets, and the less directly relevant to Delphi
> programming/programmers it is, the greater the chance that
> someone will (correctly) deem it to be offtopic.
Isn't this where the offtopic list comes in thou? And, for whats it's
worth, there were 4-5 posts on BeOS, no one complained, two posts
regarding Babylon 5 music (sci.fi and coder-geeks often go hand in
hand) and the s**t hits the fan. Rambling on about virus's is as about as
offtopic as music is. Now, with the advent of KyLix, I think I can
technically and feasible ramble on about hopes and wants for the ability
to create a GPL'd application, likes/dislikes about linux, thoughts and
hypothesiss (sp?) about what Borland may or may not bring forth into a
linux delphi, and what people actually want? i.e. widget themes, with
kylix support themes? will it honour the current gtk/gnome/kde
theme? (the answer for this is an "allmighty dear god please let it
be"!).
> Re: the recent virus and open/closed list issue, I'm with those
> who say "close the list to list-subscribers only", and not do
> anything other than that which would put any further load on Nic.
Didn't we try to close it before? And it resulted in more hassles than it
was worth?
> What we've got is great, a conservative step to keep it intact is
> fine, but shifting bases is just plain nuts.
For what it's worth, you don't HAVE to subscrive to the offtopic list if
you don't want any ramblings about things that don't directly relate to
delphi, but may have relevance to other "like minded" people in the
developer community...
Mark
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz
