Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
On May 11 at 2:28pm, Jeff Kinz wrote: Shitting on the floor is doing what comes naturally. Discussions about the impacts of technology do come about naturally as part of discussions about technology. The SOTF point is irrelevant and raising it does no one credit. It is not irrelevant, although

Re: KILLTHREAD: Re: [OT] List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
On May 12 at 12:34am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm going to officially request a KILLTHREAD on this topic This thread's grown six heads, four arms, eighteen legs, and just gotten way out of control All in favor, type: !kill -TERM $PPID Okay, but what will that do%+$NO CARRIER

Re: [OT] List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
Let's just make a list rule that if you post OT stuff without [OT] in the subject then you're asking for us to see if you have a currently patched version of OpenSSL on your server. Simply enforcing [OT] should make most everybody happy. I'll start the ball rolling with a procmail recipe: :0

Re: [OT] List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-15 Thread Fred
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 15:41 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: Let's just make a list rule that if you post OT stuff without [OT] in the subject then you're asking for us to see if you have a currently patched version of OpenSSL on your server. Simply enforcing [OT] should make most everybody

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-12 Thread Fred
Numberwhun wrote: Derek Martin wrote: having topic police rarely helps... Ok, so what about having it posted to the GNHLUG Off Topic mailing list that was started a few months ago. Personally there have been OT posts here to the main list, but nobody has bothered to post them there. I think

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread Ben Scott
[The order of quotations has been re-arranged for editorial purposes.] On 5/10/05, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that as with most political issues that surface on the list, this topic IS at least tangentially related -- it's about the politics of technology. That particular

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread Ben Scott
On 5/10/05, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this really misses the point, which was that people want to discuss them here, with this group of people. That is, apparently, incorrect. A small number of people want to assert their opinions on a given subject, repeatedly. A

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:12:01PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: [The order of quotations has been re-arranged for editorial purposes.] Derek: People are going to do it anyway, and it's NOT about being rude, and it's NOT about being irresponsible. It's about doing what comes natural in an

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread Tom Buskey
Blah blah blah. insert dead horse reference insert arguments about number of angels on the head of a pin argument about validity of argument insert same old email addresses in procmail rule - /dev/null *sigh* ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:10:56PM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: Blah blah blah. insert dead horse reference insert arguments about number of angels on the head of a pin argument about validity of argument insert same old email addresses in procmail rule - /dev/null *sigh* insert if you have

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:57:07PM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: On 5/11/05, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:10:56PM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: Blah blah blah. insert dead horse reference insert arguments about number of angels on the head of a pin argument

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread David Ecklein
: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:28 PM Subject: Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill) On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:12:01PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: [The order of quotations has

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:13:26PM -0400, David Ecklein wrote: One who would follow Ben's apparent precedent here might well ask who the h-e-double-toothpicks is Ben? But everyone on the list knows that Ben can do, and usually does, better than SOTF. In my opinion, the only thing worse than

KILLTHREAD: Re: [OT] List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-11 Thread aluminumsulfate
Okay, I'm going to officially request a KILLTHREAD on this topic This thread's grown six heads, four arms, eighteen legs, and just gotten way out of control All in favor, type: !kill -TERM $PPID ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-10 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:15:31AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: Hey people! Not too long ago we had a rather prolonged discussion about whether political stuff like this appropriate for this forum. While a formal vote was not taken, informally, a clear majority voiced the opinion that this

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-10 Thread Numberwhun
Derek Martin wrote: having topic police rarely helps... Ok, so what about having it posted to the GNHLUG Off Topic mailing list that was started a few months ago. Personally there have been OT posts here to the main list, but nobody has bothered to post them there. I think it was a pretty

Re: List topics (was Re: Help kill the Surveillance State Bill)

2005-05-10 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:57:13PM -0400, Numberwhun wrote: Derek Martin wrote: having topic police rarely helps... Ok, so what about having it posted to the GNHLUG Off Topic mailing list that was started a few months ago. Personally there have been OT posts here to the main list,