Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: wabenbau@×××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:43:08
Message-Id: 20140630012648.1d74f8f5@hal9000.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho! by Dale
1 Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 16:26
2 schrieb Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
3
4 > wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
5 > > Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38
6 > > schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
7 > >
8 > >> On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
9 > >>
10 > >>>> Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with gentoo or
11 > >>>> computers at all. If you wanna discuss the delightfulness of war
12 > >>>> machines then please to this at another place and not on this
13 > >>>> list.
14 > >>> Allow me to introduce your to my good friend "Delete" and his
15 > >>> lovely wife "button"
16 > >> Or you could filter anything with OT in the subject to /dev/null.
17 > >> It's not like this thread is masquerading as something relevant.
18 > >
19 > > That's not the point. If you wanna talk about stuff that's
20 > > apparently absolut useless to almost every member of this ML, then
21 > > you should do this at another place. Especially discussions with
22 > > politically and or military background are IMHO absolutely
23 > > inappropriate.
24 > >
25 > > But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Why shouldn't we talk here about
26 > > everything that cross one's mind? We could mark it as OT in the
27 > > subject line, so it should be no problem for everyone. Maybe we
28 > > should discuss the local daily weather? I think, that's a pretty
29 > > good idea as it would increase the noise level of this list even
30 > > more. What do you think?
31 > >
32 > >
33 > >
34 >
35 >
36 > Just a FYI. I have in the past asked questions about Windoze XP on
37 > this very list. Why, I'm not joining a windoze mailing list for just
38 > one question and I know a lot of people on this list know about
39 > windoze as well. I have seen other topics raised on this list
40 > before. It's not often but it does happen. I see Gentoo threads
41 > that don't interest me at all and I just mark them as read and move
42 > right along but I don't tell folks that I don't want to see them. I
43 > could start with systemd. If I see systemd in the subject, I mark it
44 > read and move right along usually without reading even the first
45 > post. Why, I don't use systemd so I am certainly not interested in
46 > it. There are other threads that I do the same thing with.
47
48 That's right. But all examples you've mentioned are computer related
49 topics and maybe useful for anyone on this list.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho! Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] [Less OT] Tally ho! - RC Flight Sims on Linux Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>