On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jkhatri <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2011 11:22 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM, maillistindia <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Apart from that, this mailing list is only for Ubuntu. Not for other > queries. > > am thinking there is a serious problem of what people's understanding > of Ubuntu is. > > +1 > > I've noticed that people are talking much related to general topic like > suggesting laptops , building websites and sometime to open E-mail address > !!!!!! etc... > instead Ubuntu/Linux stuff, strange !!!!. It is strange because this list > is dedicated to and made for Ubuntu related stuff, quires , technical > problem solving [ I think so , correct me if ]. > > Its ok , sometime( Note-not regularly ) if you wanna talk to on something > like other topics ( general ), one should/must write/mention the [OT] > Off-Topic in subject line of the mail
Have you looked at what all people do post and why Its because people are using Ubuntu as their main os and during the course of their use they have questions. Am not sure that people are registered for every single frigging forum / email list out there just because that is the narrow bandwidth within which one can get answers. I would like to know how many forums one must be part of to address all our questions regarding our use of Ubuntu. That is my OS and anything i do with it is about Ubuntu, or are you trying to tell me that is not the case. Some days back there was a hectic discussion regarding use of GNU/Linux instead of Linux. (Of course no one said that was off topic ) but the gist was that Linux is broad and relevant and GNU/Linux was a narrow view point and that broad was preferable I actually challenge anyone to say posting about asking about drupal and joomla and how to build a website is off topic. My OS is ubuntu, the tools i am talking about are available in Ubuntu repos what more do you seek - that every friggin second word should be friggin ubuntu. Its quite clear that people who scream "off topic" are not consistent in what they think is off topic. - none of those folks who replied back to thwe websites thread said off topic to "asking about a linux magazine" or about searching for an indian email service. If asking about tools to build a website , on a friggin Ubuntu OS, is off topic, then so are the above two. I want to point out that for me these two mails (about a linux mag and about a indian email service are acceptable, want to why - because these folks are by and large part of the community - and they (we think) we have the freedom and the right and the faith to ask something that we feel our "friends" on the Ubuntu community might know about. ** To further add - if we start applying the various off topic rules the only people who will be left on this list are those developing ubuntu software and employed by canonical or something like. The rest are always going to be off topic. ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
