"Perhaps what we need is a plug-pointlesschat list for discussion like that."
There's already plenty of pointless chat in the irc channel. :)
-Erik
On 5/10/05, Joseph Sinclair <
plug-discuss@stcaz.net> wrote:
> > Thanks, Alan for the analysis. It brings some much-needed clarity to the issue.
>
> I suspect the recent concern over off-topic posts rests with the political, divisive nature of the most recent major OT thread. I apologize for the extent to which my own posts may have extended that thread on-list. I've since taken all discussion of that thread off-list, and I expect to do so more quickly with OT posts in the future.
>
> I agree with Alan that this is an excellent list, and we generally do a good job of keeping the discussion on-topic (or very nearly so).
>
> ==Joseph++
>
> Alan Dayley wrote:
> > Brief Analysis
> >
> > Time frame: Roughly one week from "RE: IPCop v1.4.5 Configuration"
> > 5/3/2005 3:59AM to "Re: Politics was Re: OT: Let's hear it for the
> > activist judges!" 5/9/2005 8:43 PM (The last message before I started this
> > thread.
> >
> > Classification basis: Just counting the subject field to classify message
> > as "on" or "off" topic.
> >
> > Total emails: 190, 100%
> > On: 123, 65%
> > Off (FS, hardware only or computer related, etc.): 34, 18%
> > Off: 33, 17%
> >
> > (Percentages rounded. Disagreement over "on" or "off" status may exsist,
> > especially for the "Off but computer related" catagory. This is just a
> > quick judgment call on my part based on stated subject.)
> >
> > OK. That was one week before the first "stop OT posts" requests came in.
> > OT posts were significant ( > 15% ) for some time prior to that. I think
> > that shows that the list is highly tolerant of OT posts since it took a
> > while before any moderating comments were posted. This is good.
> >
> > I am not advocating a strict policy. I don't think moderation will happen
> > (time and spam) so a strict policy would not be enforced anyway. I like
> > brief OT conversations and occasionally start them myself.
> >
> > I am advocating a reasonable maintainance of the purpose of the
> > plug-discuss list. That is "a mailing list that you can join to ask or
> > answer questions, and talk about linux stuff." Being that it is a Linux
> > User Group, the topic is Linux and things related to it.
> >
> > This email list is one of The BEST on the internet. I have looked and
> > found very few to compare with the insights, knowledge, responsiveness and
> > tolerance that members of this list create. We can be proud of that.
> > Let's just keep it up!
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
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