OT: Handling Politics the plug-discuss way?

[Stephen]

There are 2 sides to this.

1 it deviates from the Linux part of our users group. and ultimately
this is counter to the list's intent and those users will be annoyed
and leave.

2 we are a community of geeks and nerds (you pick which you want to
be) and as such its kind of nice to find them with like interests as
not all of us are in locations where there are many of similar
caliber/interest so non list content is always going to be filtering
into the list.

for me i think keeping the non Linux related material to maybe a
sibling list or well tagged is really the better choice than getting
rid of the content.

if we tag it well users can filter out the Off topic material easily.
but this also kind of requires self policing of the list by all the
users. keep your email on topic (per origonal subject) if you can. if
you need to split to a new topic do so i have seen it done here and it
can work well.

but we cannot say no to odd bents because legal and event related new
pertaining to Linux really should be here if anywhere, but it should
be Linux related or tagged off topic or taken to a more appropriate
list.

i dislike flame wars but its not a big deal for me to find a thread
that annoys/bnores me and clear it quickly.... just makes my
blackberry feel loved in the meantime...