On Wednesday 14 May 2008 12:37:51 Alberto Muller wrote: > Hello all, I've been using this mailing list for 3 or 4 months thinking > that its main purpose is to help people joining the OO community to > learn how to use Open Office. Instead, I have seen endless rants and > pointless discussions about matters that have nothing to do with helping > people with OO. I'm just citing a few items : Top posting vs Bottom > posting (please stop it), OO needs an e-mail client (going on forever); > download time for OO (went immediately off track and landed to the > American Constitution and the size of gold coins at the actual rates). > Do we want to go on like that or shall we finally go back th the main > purpose of the mailing list ? Helping people with Open Office, nothing > else, and leave the rest to the philosophers. Personally I will > unsubscribe from the list if the current trend continues. Best regards. > Alberto Muller
I have a delete button :-) So do you. You are, of course, free to unsubscribe. But I do not see the main purpose being to "help people joining the OO community to learn how to use Open Office". That is certainly one of its purposes - but it is, I would have thought, also to enable people to help each other and to build up a supportive community. I too dislike political and religious discussions. But I do not have to read them. And I dislike even more those emails which try to dictate what everyone else must do. Even the moderators only _request_. Tho' I do feel that we should respect their requests. Which is why I did not reply before to your _OT_ post. However, now that you have written again to criticise the community, I feel that I must point out that no-one is forcing you to stay. If you want to stay and learn (and I for one have learnt a lot) you would be warmly welcomed. If you do not, you are obviously free to leave as soon as you wish to do so. Lisi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
