Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

[Bob Young]

Ian McCulloch wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Martin Bergstrand wrote:
>
>
>> Hey guys, this is an interesting debate, but could we please do it someplace
>> else? On the forums for example, that way the subscribers of this list don't
>> have to wake up to 50+ new off-topic messages from this list.
>>
>
> I agree completely - it would be interesting to see the subscriber stats
> for this list; I wouldn't be surprised if it has dropped substantially in
> the last couple of days.  Certainly if this continues for any longer it
> WILL, me included.  It isn't that its an uninteresting topic, but it is
> COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC!
>
> Ian McCulloch
>
I've never understood why people care about off topic threads. It's an 
*email* list, thus it's reasonable to expect that most people are using 
an email client or some derivative thereof to read the messages posted 
to the list. With all modern email clients that I know of, it's 
absolutely trivial to filter/delete/ignore messages in a specific 
thread. Given that, it's not like anyone not interested in a particular 
thread is being forced to read or even *manually* deal with unwanted 
messages.

Conversly as long as the thread is continuing at least some of the list 
members are interested, exactly what harm does it do to allow an off 
topic thread to die a natural death as all threads eventually do? 

OT threads may violate policy, and that may irritate people who are 
absolute sticklers for strict adherence to the "rules" but beyond that 
what real damage or harm does it cause, and is such damage or harm 
sufficient to justify restricting what some valid list members wish to 
discuss with each other?

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Bob Young
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