Dealing with off-topic mail (was Re: The role of debian-private)

2010-06-27 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Christoph Berg, 2010-06-09] > > > Too few MUAs have a button for "don't bother me about new mail > > in this (sub-)thread". > > I wish all off-topic mails were marked with "OT" tag in the subject, > dovecot moves such mails (including the ones tagged with "VAC") to a > d

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 10 iun 10, 15:31:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Absolutely. Nobody is trying to censor these conversations, let's just > have them somewere more appropriate. ...see my sig? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/li

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 10.06.2010 16:16, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: As wrote by Jonas, there is a risk of "cabalization". Good discussion could also start from off-topic bad threads. I don't care if there's a cabal to discuss whether or not America, Hy

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:16:10PM +, Clint Adams wrote: >On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> As wrote by Jonas, there is a risk of "cabalization". >> Good discussion could also start from off-topic bad threads. > >I don't care if there's a cabal to discuss

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > As wrote by Jonas, there is a risk of "cabalization". > Good discussion could also start from off-topic bad threads. I don't care if there's a cabal to discuss whether or not America, Hy-Brazil, Eurasia, and Scandinavia are co

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:46:13PM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I don't think traffic shoudl be keep at minimun, it is not a > important list. We don't hide problem, so important things are > send to d-d-a (which is the only re

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Personally I like also that "debian-private" carries strong personal > opinion (instead of public mailing list). I don't think I'm able to interpret the above properly. If that is to mean that on -private you don't need to be

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Christoph Berg, 2010-06-09] > > Too few MUAs have a button for "don't bother me about new mail > > in this (sub-)thread". > > I wish all off-topic mails were marked with "OT" tag in the subject, > dovecot moves such mails (including the ones tagged wi

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Christoph Berg, 2010-06-09] > Too few MUAs have a button for "don't bother me about new mail > in this (sub-)thread". I wish all off-topic mails were marked with "OT" tag in the subject, dovecot moves such mails (including the ones tagged with "VAC") to a different mailbox for me. How about at l

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Enrico Zini 2010-06-09 <20100609140853.ga3...@enricozini.org> > So, some people are advocating in favour of a private mailing list for > DD chatter. The fact that that idea is being very vocally pushed by no > less than two people prompts me to double check some fundamental facts > about the De

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:46:13PM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: I don't think traffic shoudl be keep at minimun, it is not a important list. We don't hide problem, so important things are send to d-d-a (which is the only require

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > I don't think traffic shoudl be keep at minimun, it is not a > important list. We don't hide problem, so important things are > send to d-d-a (which is the only required list for DD). Why would we not be better served if the p

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 09.06.2010 16:08, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, there is a discussion in debian-private about the role of debian-private. There is nothing private in that discussion, so I'm following it up here. So, some people are advocating in favour of a private mailing list for DD chatter. The fact

The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, there is a discussion in debian-private about the role of debian-private. There is nothing private in that discussion, so I'm following it up here. So, some people are advocating in favour of a private mailing list for DD chatter. The fact that that idea is being very vocally pushed