"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> In your opinion, perhaps. I prefer the current arrangement, where
>> people are free to say whatever they want.
>
>So, if what you are saying is true, then the posters who make
>claims that some email is "off-topic" are exercising their
>freedom of expression to say that but simultaneously are mistaken
>or saying falshoods, since people are "free to say whatever they
>want".
Just because one has the freedom to do X doesn't mean one *should* do
X.
The topic of this list is qmail. There's nothing stopping anyone from
posting a message about toenail clippers, but such a message would be
off topic for the list, and would likely not be received well. That's
OK, though. They don't want us talking about qmail on the
toenail-clippers list, either.
>So, I guess it's like every baboon is free to do whatever it wants
>and every baboon is free to pummel another for exercising that freedom?
Except we're not baboons, we presumably joined this list to talk
about qmail--not simply to exercise our freedoms, and "pummelling"
consists of sending a harshly worded e-mail message.
>Thanks for all the help you give on this list.
Glad to help. Maybe I'll see you on the toenail-clippers list
sometime. :-)
-Dave
