On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:50:16PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:37:29PM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > > > Are you suggesting that instead of creating a debian "off topic" mailing > > list, we should create a debian-help list instead, specifically mandated on > > the topic of getting and giving help with debian? > > > > debian-user's description is "Help and discussion among users of > > Debian"... obviously these two topics need to be separated so that there's a > > list where debian users can be *productive*. > > > I think that people on this list are plenty productive. The description > for debian-devel says that it is for discussion related to the > development of Debian and the description for -project says that it is > for non-technical issues affecting Debian. That does not stop things > from drifting far OT on those lists. Now, if you wanted a moderated > list, that might make it slightly more likely to get what you want.
these OT threads are just the water-cooler break after a long morning of churning out widgets. We all get together and thump on each other for a while before getting back to work. It keeps the interest up for those of us who spend a lot of time on here answering the same questions over and over... right? A
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