[D-community-discuss] Bug#427218: My vote, I'm against a separate OT group.

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sat,26.Jul.08, 10:31:25, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > It's still related to Debian and not suitable to discuss Sponge Bob,
> > growing broccoli or if color should be spelled with or without 'u'.
> 
> None of those things are appropriate to discuss on Debian lists, ever.
> If people want to talk about spongebob, they should use
> www.unitedspongebob.com/forums/index.php or similar. If they want to
> talk about broccoli, they should use any one of a number of gardening
> lists. They're more likely to find people who share their love of a
> topic and are willing to discuss it.
>  
> > Again, I think this could *strengthen the community*.
> 
> How? I personally can't imagine how an off topic mailing list is going
> to magically "strengthen the community". Who would even bother to
> subscribe to such a list? [If someone wants random off-topic mails
> delivered to your mailbox, I'm fairly certain they can cherry pick
> enough messages off of gmane to satisfy their cravings.]
> 
> Debian mailing lists and the people who subscribe to them are all
> united by their desire to discuss and hear about Debian and things
> related to Debian. Things that aren't are best discussed in places
> where they're on topic.
> 
> Anyway, without significant evidence to the contrary, I'm personally
> against creating this list. I don't see any extension of any argument
> brought to date changing my view. [That said, I wouldn't have a
> problem with it if it ended up that a mailing list under the
> debian-community was created; strong usage of it and a reduction in
> totally off-topic threads on debian-user would be significant evidence
> of its utiltity even though I'd personally never subscribe or post on
> it.]
> 
> 
> Don Armstrong

Hello Holger,

Is debian-community still an option for a debian-offtopic list?

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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