Am Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:17:48 +0100 schrieb Martti Kühne <mysatyre@gmail.com>:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:08:27PM -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
... soooo, how about an `arch-offtopic` list? then at least we'd have somewhere to send these tangents, under pain of DEATH (er, temp ban perhaps), vs. begging and pleading for them to die ... since there is an obvious refusal to take them to the forum, or a blog, or a diary under the pillow. (it would be cool if you could re-assign a Message-ID to a specific list ...)
who's with me?
+1, wondering why no one picked that up yet.
This wouldn't change much. The original topic was Arch related. The discussion about PA etc. evolved from this. So such a discussion wouldn't be switched to another mailing list. Same for any other similar discussions. See my try to change the subject from mount to PA. The discussion about PA has mostly been continued under the original subject. And there's another disadvantage. This arch-offtopic list would most likely not read by so many people and probably not by the "right" people whatever that might mean. A new mailing-list arch-offtopic would only be used for discussions which are originally be totally offtopic. And probably not even then, if someone isn't aware that his topic is offtopic. So if such a discussion would indeed be moved to an arch-offtopic list this would mean people can directly shut their mouth. So almost no chance for changes. People who are not interested in a thread can either ignore this thread, just filter it out or move its e-mails to /dev/null with their e-mail clients. Heiko