ditching Apple products due to boycotts?

[Trent Shipley]

On 05/17/2010 07:57 PM, Russell Deneault wrote:
> I joined this list recently to see about participating more with PLUG.
> Is this really what a Linux-oriented mailing list is about? My mailbox
> as never been so full of crap. 
>
> What's the usual ratio of rabid howling to actual technical discussion?

The list will be solidly technical for two or three weeks at a time. 
Then a hot political topic comes along that generates a huge amount of
off topic traffic.  On rare occasions threads refuse to die so list
admins have had to kill them.


> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com
> <mailto:craigwhite at azapple.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 19:12 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM, <joe at actionline.com
>     <mailto:joe at actionline.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >         > http://huertanix.tumblr.com wrote:
>     >
>     >         > Ubsubscried,
>     >
>     >         What does Ubsubscried mean?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >   It means: I'm going to throw a hissy fit if anyone calls illegal
>     > aliens what they are.
>     ----
>     it means that there are some who cannot exert self control and abuse
>     this list to push their political views.
>
>     I'm somewhat close to unsubscribing at this point.
>
>     Craig
>
>
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