On Saturday 19 May 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 15:12:51 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Not true. For example, I'm having trouble with Firefox > >crashing.... Asking here could help a great deal with that. > > Of course. But rambling for months about religion or internal USA > politics has nothing to do with it.
I agree. My point was that a post being on topic on Debian *AND* on Gentoo is not a good yardstick. > > The OT threads don't bother me, but they do seem to bother others, > > often for the sole point that they can't bear to see anything > > handled other than in the way they want it handled. > > No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: > > * everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every time > these characters rerun their show How do I pay real money? It doesn't cost me extra on my Internet connection and, other than time, which is so minimal I can't measure it, I can't think of anything I'm spending cash on that this effects. > * tolerating these situations on what should be a technical support > list is (Joey said it) one of the reasons why _developers_ avoid > these forums, making them less useful. That is the best point I've seen so far for dealing with the situation, but, again, I tend not to follow OT threads. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
