Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 19:12
schrieb Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:

> wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 16:26
> > schrieb Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
> >
> >> wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
> >>> Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38
> >>> schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
> >>>
> >>>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with gentoo
> >>>>>> or computers at all. If you wanna discuss the delightfulness
> >>>>>> of war machines then please to this at another place and not
> >>>>>> on this list.
> >>>>> Allow me to introduce your to my good friend "Delete" and his
> >>>>> lovely wife "button"
> >>>> Or you could filter anything with OT in the subject to /dev/null.
> >>>> It's not like this thread is masquerading as something relevant.
> >>> That's not the point. If you wanna talk about stuff that's
> >>> apparently absolut useless to almost every member of this ML, then
> >>> you should do this at another place. Especially discussions with
> >>> politically and or military background are IMHO absolutely
> >>> inappropriate.
> >>>
> >>> But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Why shouldn't we talk here about
> >>> everything that cross one's mind? We could mark it as OT in the
> >>> subject line, so it should be no problem for everyone. Maybe we
> >>> should discuss the local daily weather? I think, that's a pretty
> >>> good idea as it would increase the noise level of this list even
> >>> more. What do you think?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Just a FYI.  I have in the past asked questions about Windoze XP on
> >> this very list.  Why, I'm not joining a windoze mailing list for
> >> just one question and I know a lot of people on this list know
> >> about windoze as well.  I have seen other topics raised on this
> >> list before.  It's not often but it does happen.  I see Gentoo
> >> threads that don't interest me at all and I just mark them as read
> >> and move right along but I don't tell folks that I don't want to
> >> see them.  I could start with systemd. If I see systemd in the
> >> subject, I mark it read and move right along usually without
> >> reading even the first post. Why, I don't use systemd so I am
> >> certainly not interested in it.  There are other threads that I do
> >> the same thing with.
> > That's right. But all examples you've mentioned are computer related
> > topics and maybe useful for anyone on this list.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> But windoze is not Gentoo.  If I knew that several people would help
> me with a car issue because at some point several mentioned they have
> or had that car, I'd ask a car question if it was basically a once or
> twice thing or at least rare.
>
> This isn't the first time a topic has started or ended up being not
> related to Gentoo or even computers.

You are really tenacious. :-) It seems that I should lower my
expectations regarding what's on-topic and what's not. Lets say, every
topic is fine as long as the poster asks a question about a technical
problem he has and as long as the topic has nothing to do with weapons.
Is that definition ok for you?

But I'm merely a regular member of this ML and this is just my personal
opinion, so never mind me. Talk about what you want, e.g. (historical)
Tanks, (historical) Submarines, (historical) H-Bombs...

Sorry for this tinge of sarcasm. ;-)

Maybe we should finish the discussion here because it is getting
off-topic more and more. :-)