List protocol (was Re: 'The man who wants to take your jobs')

[zcerza at coe.neu.edu (Zack Cerza)]

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On Sun March 28 2004 03:26, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:15:57AM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> > I am going to respectfully request that this discussion leave the
> > list.  It's as interesting to me as the next person, but this just
> > isn't the place for it.
>
> Then, though I am myself no longer interested in this particular
> discussion,  I will respectfully request that someone clarify what is
> and what is not on topic here.  In my opinion, the answer is, "things
> which interest people who work with and/or use Unix and/or Linux."
> This is actually MORE specific than the mailing list description,
> which states the following:

> Users of computers are often very political beings, and computers is
> itself becoming an increasinly political field.  If the politics
> affecting our group is of interest to the group, then why shouldn't it
> be discussed here?

I posted to the thread sometime in the middle, but I've long since bored of 
it. I'm not going to talk about whether *I* think it's on- or off-topic here, 
but I do want to point something out.

On debian-devel, it's not uncommon to have a thread reach 100 or so posts - 
many times longer than this one. And it's all ON-topic. My point? Sometimes 
you have to sit through reams of mail you have no interested by virtue of the 
fact that you're subscribed to the list. This one isn't that bad, really.

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Zack Cerza	<zcerza at coe.neu.edu>
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