Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:48:29 + Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Paul Ishenin wrote: > > > The problem as I see it: > > > > 1. Lazarus developers and users want to be informed about lazarus > > problems and we need a place to discuss them. > > Perhaps we need a lazarus-devel ML, which while not

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Paul Ishenin wrote: The problem as I see it: 1. Lazarus developers and users want to be informed about lazarus problems and we need a place to discuss them. Perhaps we need a lazarus-devel ML, which while not being invitation-only is /very/ strictly moderated. "How do I use Lazarus" questi

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list [OT]

2010-07-03 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/7/3, dmitry boyarintsev : > There's Lazarus-other list. > > PLEASE STOP mailing here! I will moderate posts in this thread. Vincent -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list [OT]

2010-07-03 Thread dmitry boyarintsev
There's Lazarus-other list. PLEASE STOP mailing here! -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list [OT]

2010-07-03 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:36:19 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 3 July 2010 12:41, Reimar Grabowski wrote: > > This comparision is exactly the disrespect I am talking about. > > Nope you still don't get what I mean... I get exactly what you mean, but you don't get that you choose the wrong way

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Martin
On 03/07/2010 11:15, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Make one comment which the "Gods" frown upon, and your and banished to the *-other mailing lists (which nobody cares to read). So this is in a way insulting that person saying we don't want you here, so f***k off. Maybe that's just what I have to do -

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Henry Vermaak schrieb: This is just offensive nonsense (and Godwin's law). The moderation here is always courteous, well explained and above board (at least when I've experienced it). How will off topic trolling take a project further? Isn't it time now, to move *this* thread to the Lazarus-

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:15:42 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > I simply compared how they were treated and everything they were > not allowed to do - in relation to these mailing lists. You just don't get it, do you? This comparision is exactly the disrespect I am talking about. This is a mailing l

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Paul Ishenin
03.07.2010 18:15, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Make one comment which the "Gods" frown upon, and your and banished to the *-other mailing lists (which nobody cares to read). There are problems which needs to be solved somehow. -other mailing lists is the solution. Maybe not the perfect. The probl

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 July 2010 02:00, Reimar Grabowski wrote: > > This is not funny at all. And your disrespect for the more then 6 million > murdered people is very alarming. Next time read your emails with more care before accusing me of something. I did not insult any of the people affected in that tragic time

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 3 July 2010 02:41, Gustavo Enrique Jimenez wrote: > > Aha, the Godwin's law: As an online discussion grows longer, the Please quote where I mentioned fpGUI is better than Lazarus in this message thread. I have no idea what you read or where you read it, but it was clearly not something I wrote

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-03 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 3 July 2010 00:09, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2 July 2010 18:11, Henry Vermaak  wrote: >> >> This is not a democracy, we have a list moderator that steers these things >> and keeps the spam away. > > I'm all for a list moderator doing its job - with a bit of moderation > obviously. Being a l

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Gustavo Enrique Jimenez
2010/7/2 Reimar Grabowski : > On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 01:09:58 +0200 > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> Some >> take their "hobby" way to serious here, and treats the mailing lists >> like the Nazi Camps from way back. > > You should think before you write mails. This is a very serious advice. > Comparing

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 01:09:58 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Some > take their "hobby" way to serious here, and treats the mailing lists > like the Nazi Camps from way back. You should think before you write mails. This is a very serious advice. Comparing anything today to this time shows clearl

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 July 2010 18:11, Henry Vermaak wrote: > > This is not a democracy, we have a list moderator that steers these things > and keeps the spam away. I'm all for a list moderator doing its job - with a bit of moderation obviously. Being a list moderator / core developer or having a bit of the "god

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 July 2010 19:04, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > > The less people can spam on mailing lists, the more they can code. And here I thought multi-tasking is a common practice these days. :-) Maybe not everybody is as good at it as I thought. -- Regards, - Graeme - __

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 2 July 2010 17:55, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: >> This is not a democracy, we have a list moderator that steers these things >> and keeps the spam away. > > I thought Free Pascal is open source. Such an arrogant attitude will not Open source doesn't mean democracy, where did you get that idea? O

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread theo
Florian Klämpfl http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus>> wrote: The less people can spam on mailing lists, the more they can code. Since experience showed that code contribuitions is usually reciprocally proportional to the generated mailing list noise by a person Hehe,

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:04:32 +0200 Florian Klämpfl wrote: > The less people can spam on mailing lists, the more they can code. Since > experience showed that code contribuitions is usually reciprocally > proportional to the generated mailing list noise by a person, moderation > is often a good th

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Jürgen Hestermann schrieb: >> This is not a democracy, we have a list moderator that steers these >> things and keeps the spam away. > > I thought Free Pascal is open source. Such an arrogant attitude will not > help to promote Free Pascal very much. An "go away if you don't like it" > is not the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
This is not a democracy, we have a list moderator that steers these things and keeps the spam away. I thought Free Pascal is open source. Such an arrogant attitude will not help to promote Free Pascal very much. An "go away if you don't like it" is not the spirit of enthusiastical Pascal program

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 02/07/10 16:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2 July 2010 16:51, Vincent Snijders wrote: And by no means others must be forced to receive and scan off topic mails on the Lazarus list. And then comes the other problem What you might consider "off topic", I and others might consider "on to

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On 7/2/2010 11:44 AM, Sven Barth wrote: Just a little correction: Although Adem has participated much in the parser thread, it was Hans-Peter Diettrich who started it. Thanks, Sven! -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org h

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Sven Barth
Hi! Am 02.07.2010 17:29, schrieb Doug Chamberlin: The real problem as I see it (bringing this back to the current situation) is that Adem failed to see that the parser thread really should have been moved to an FPC list from the Lazarus list. If that had been done a while back I believe everyone

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:18:15 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > And then comes the other problem What you might consider "off > topic", I and others might consider "on topic". This is what Jürgen > and I am talking about (including lost mails due to multiple lists and > info fragmentation). No

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Doug Chamberlin
From a different perspective I could say "Manage your mailing lists!". I subscribe to about 20 different mailing lists. In some cases several of them all funnel into one local folder via my email client. I then review that folder for interesting stuff and ignore the threads I am not interested

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 July 2010 16:51, Vincent Snijders wrote: > And by no means others must be forced to receive and scan off topic > mails on the Lazarus list. And then comes the other problem What you might consider "off topic", I and others might consider "on topic". This is what Jürgen and I am talking a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
> I am with Graeme here. Having "..other" lists is of no reason to me. There > is no strict distinction between the threats. Just making the subject line > speaking would be enough. If I want to organize the mails I can do that in > my email client as *I* like it. I don't want others doing this fo

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Henry Vermaak schrieb: No, all the crap can go to the other list, so things will be _easier_ to find and _easier_ to read. This is great because I can subscribe to that list and ignore it (unless I'm bored). I am with Graeme here. Having "..other" lists is of no reason to me. There is no stric

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:25:25 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Then while Vincent is at it, why not create a few more - to keep > things organized. Here are some suggestions: [note the sarcasm]. > > lazarus-ide-support > lazarus-lcl-support > lazarus-lcl-devel > lazarus-ide-devel > laza

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 02/07/10 13:45, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2 July 2010 14:37, Henry Vermaak wrote: How did you come to the conclusion that I don't know how to use my email client? Please move this discussion to lazarus-other, it is very off-topic here. Haha, and you wonder why you wind people up the wr

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 July 2010 14:37, Henry Vermaak wrote: > > How did you come to the conclusion that I don't know how to use my email > client? Please move this discussion to lazarus-other, it is very off-topic here. -- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-p

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 02/07/10 13:21, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2 July 2010 14:00, Henry Vermaak wrote: No, all the crap can go to the other list, so things will be _easier_ to find and _easier_ to read. This is great because I can subscribe to that list and ignore it (unless I'm bored). And you can't do the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/7/2 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 2 July 2010 14:11, Vincent Snijders wrote: >> >> No, I did not add the other lists either. Feel free to request it to Gmane. > > Only list admins can request Gmane mirrors. I don't see that on http://gmane.org/subscribe.php. Unless you consider lazarus-other as "a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 02/07/10 13:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2 July 2010 14:11, Vincent Snijders wrote: No, I did not add the other lists either. Feel free to request it to Gmane. This is exactly my point - information gets lost or fragmented now. They will not be searchable by somebody that subscribes 3 m

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 July 2010 14:11, Vincent Snijders wrote: > > No, I did not add the other lists either. Feel free to request it to Gmane. This is exactly my point - information gets lost or fragmented now. They will not be searchable by somebody that subscribes 3 months from now (default Mailman archives are

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 July 2010 13:38, Reimar Grabowski wrote: > > I am a clairvoyant. I knew that you would say this. You win a gold star. > And what you call fragmentation other people call order (yeah, we germans can > be a little anal when it comes to this). Then while Vincent is at it, why not create a few

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 July 2010 14:00, Henry Vermaak wrote: > > No, all the crap can go to the other list, so things will be _easier_ to > find and _easier_ to read.  This is great because I can subscribe to that > list and ignore it (unless I'm bored). And you can't do the same with this list, by simply looking a

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/7/2 Graeme Geldenhuys : > On 2 July 2010 11:49, Vincent Snijders wrote: >> For those discussions a new mailing list has been created. You can >> subscribe here: > Did you request it be added to Gmane too? No, I did not add the other lists either. Feel free to request it to Gmane. Vincent --

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 02/07/10 12:13, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2 July 2010 11:49, Vincent Snijders wrote: For those discussions a new mailing list has been created. You can subscribe here: Oh boy! We need *less* mailing lists, not *more*. Information will now get fragmented even more. :-( No, all the cra

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:13:05 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Oh boy! We need *less* mailing lists, not *more*. Information will > now get fragmented even more. :-( I am a clairvoyant. I knew that you would say this. The reason seems to be that some people are only subscribed to the Lazarus li

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Krisztián Nagy
Information will now get fragmented even more. And who subscribed to this list will now get what he expects and not tons of slightly (or not) related mails. I personally have never experienced gmail having a problem searching one more list. Thanks from me, too! -- _

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2 July 2010 11:49, Vincent Snijders wrote: > For those discussions a new mailing list has been created. You can > subscribe here: Oh boy! We need *less* mailing lists, not *more*. Information will now get fragmented even more. :-( BTW: Did you request it be added to Gmane too? -- Regard

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:49:59 +0200 Vincent Snijders wrote: > For those discussions a new mailing list has been created. You can > subscribe here: > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus-other Good choice. Thanks for doing this. Greetings R. -- A: Because it messes up the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 02/07/10 10:49, Vincent Snijders wrote: Lately I have noticed that the Lazarus list has been (mis-)used for discussion not really related to Lazarus. The current parser thread is an example of that. For those discussions a new mailing list has been created. You can subscribe here: http://list

[Lazarus] Lazarus-other list

2010-07-02 Thread Vincent Snijders
Lately I have noticed that the Lazarus list has been (mis-)used for discussion not really related to Lazarus. The current parser thread is an example of that. For those discussions a new mailing list has been created. You can subscribe here: http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/laz