On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Godbey, David wrote:
> Again. I honestly don't see a more appropriate place to discuss
> it. I'm talking about THIS (Helping Sun against MS)topic. Not
> random off-topic topics.
Well then, honestly, you're not looking very hard. Try the newsgroup
comp.lang.java.advocacy as one starting point (I checked quickly
there, and this stuff is being discussed there).
http://www.javalobby.org/ is another one. And I'm sure there are a
ton of relevant mailing lists and/or web sites out there as well,
stuff that can easily be found with a little searching.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:43 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [off-topic]
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Thompson, Willard (GTICCC) wrote:
>
> > I agree with this considering the monumental decisions that will
> > effect the technology community, this fall. Just put/include
> > [off-topic] in the subject. Also, threads like this would fade out
> > anyway.
>
> I don't see why people think putting [Off-Topic] in the subject line
> makes it OK to post something off-topic. Do you really think that
> announcing you're about to do something inappropriate makes it any
> less inappropriate? (As if that couldn't be determined often from the
> subject anyway.)
>
> I also agree with Nic (and Pier, who is the list manager, so I don't
> see why people don't listen to what he says) that we've had enough of
> this topic. Even if you take a lenient policy and allow a little bit
> of information posting and discussion on it, we've already had that,
> and it's time to move on. Anyone who wants to discuss it further
> should do so amongst themselves, and/or find and/or create a more
> appropriate place to discuss it.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Godbey, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Please let's stop this now (was Re: R: Helping Sun against
> > MS)
> >
> >
> > Don't agree with you on this Nic. I think its good to air this
> > out. The servlet interest community certainly has its own
> > perspective, and perhaps some good might come of this. Perhaps time
> > for Open-Source community to build a JVM for MS OSes?
> >
> > Moderating the list is fine. Keeping reign on off-topic stuff is
> > fine. But sometimes discussion on a big issue such as this is
> > appropriate. I say let it go for now. I would agree that folks
> > should restrain the inflamatory statements such as "MS is a horrible
> > company". I want to hear from both sides.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
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Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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