Off topic kills value of the list and group

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Nathan <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 06 November 2008 21:36:15 der.hans wrote:
> > Am 06. Nov, 2008 schwätzte Dan Lund so:
> >
> > > You know, I've put up with this battle too much and people trying to
> > > make a Topic-based list into a general discussion "democracy".  I
> >
> > It is not a topic-based list. It's a general discussion list. The
> > applications, development and web lists are topic-based.
> >
> > There is an option to add topics to this list. I doubt that would be
> > useful or I'd've suggested it long ago.
> >
> > > digress, you guys have a great one.
> > > I'm unsubscribing.
> >
> > That is your choice. Your sig quote indicates you shouldn't :).
> >
> > > "There is only one good, namely knowledge, and only one evil, namely
> > > ignorance."
> > > --Socrates
> >
> > By leaving you will be missing out on knowledge.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
>
>
> I have to add something here. This is a discussion list. A discussion list
> FOR linux users. But not specifically about LINUX. Linux User Group by
> definition means a GROUP of LINUX USERS who are all participating in a
> DISCUSS list. It is not topic based, but a general discussion list.
> As people on this list have become friends they act like friends and
> discuss everything from time to time.
>
> If you do not approve of alternative topics to linux maybe you need to find
> a discussion list for people who do not want to be friends, but be
> completely un-social and _only_ discuss GNU/Linux.



 btw- does anyone recommend a Linux Professional organization?  Theres got
to be groups where I pay a small fee to keep krap out of my life.

 -jmz
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