On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:04:21 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:37:58 -0600 > > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> > >>>There is nothing OT about my contributions. This started as a > >>>question of whether totalitarian regimes can tolerate diversity. > >>>I have consistently been arguing that they can not. > >> > >>AFAICT, everything you wrote is OT in regards to installing, > >>maintaining, and using Debian. > >> > >>Mike > > > > > > So it is. And you're reading messages way down deep in a thread > > indicated as "[OT]" because ...? > > I don't want to restart the discussion. However, to answer > your question > > (1) The people who are high-level OT posters hijack threads > with decent content. > > (2) People sometimes hijack threads which have drifted miserably > off-topic with another on-topic discussion. > > I mentioned this before, that the way it is done here is making > it difficult just to delete threads. Also, when a thread has been > deleted, and more material arrives, then something which looks > deep to those participating in it pops to the top. That's what > I saw, a message at the top. Fair enough. Thanks for the explanation. > > I responded to your message due to the extremity of your > statement, and how you obviously seem to think that being > OT in an OT thread is a bad thing, while being OT in a whole > mail echo is not. The statement appears extreme only until you realise that the "OT" in this case was expressed not in relation to Debian-related matters, but to another subject entirely! BTW, I think you've managed to demonstrate point (2) above. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
