On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> Do you believe most of the recent flamewars and OT threads on linux-il
> were relevant at all?
some of this is not flame wars - it's exchanging opinions that are
relevant to linux, in the sense that they hepl us choose services and
method of work with our systems (and with linux distributions in
particular).
> Over the last week, I've witnessed just how
> easily people get carried away, just cause they gotta say whatever they
> have in mind, regardless of what the original question was.
this is natural on nmailing lists. and that's why we have people like you,
to stop us eventually ;0
> Guys, even if you enjoy such discussions, do you think it's appropriate
> for this channel, which also serves to help users with questions (face
> it, it's used for support, not IGLU or whatever we tried to launch) ?
> Couldn't the traffic drive people away?
it might. it might also cause sme people to stay. if it'll turn into an
ugly name-calling competetion, it'll drive people away. if the language is
kept on a descent level, i think some people will actually like reading
it, cause it tells them about things that are relevant to how they use
their system - everyone here uses an internet connection, so connectivity
related discussions make sense. they all use interfaces, and have the
usual run of thoughts about using GUIS, command lines, windows
intergration vs. linux's seperation, so i think this also makes sense.
surely more interesting then reading about "problems with Matrox XYZ and
Xfree YZX" for the 20th time or so :P~~
> (P.S. if we opened linux-il-flames for such discussions, how many of
> you would join? :)
i might, thought tha name you suggest would be somewhat missleading.
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