Having just deleted more than half of todays messages to the list because they were OT (although most not marked as such) I had an Idea, Recently someone mentioned (on this list) that the SuSE-ot list is fairly low volume. Since there seems to be no stopping people making OT posts and continuing OT threads on this list maybe everyone that subscribes to this list for the purpose of asking questions about and using SuSE Linux could move over to the low volume (OT) list and leave this list for those that really should be posting on the other list. No-one will be the wiser because if they were on the OT list where they belong they wouldn't be posting here. To paraphrase Loydd Bridges from the movie "Airplane" "I chose a bad month to quit drinking" :-( If anyone is interested (which I'm afraid they are not) The SuSE-Linux-e faq that we all recieved when we signed up had this to say about (OT) off topic posts... A17. Sorry, we really have no choice. We've asked nicely over the years for people to take their off-topic threads elsewhere in the interestof keeping the messages per day on SLE under 200 and, well, that just didn't work. We now have a list, suse-ot, that's devoted solely to off-topic discussions. That's right, all off-topic all the time. Email suse-ot-subscribe@suse.com to subscribe. See ya -- dh
On Thursday 28 October 2004 07:50, David Herman wrote:
Having just deleted more than half of todays messages to the list because they were OT (although most not marked as such) I had an Idea,
Recently someone mentioned (on this list) that the SuSE-ot list is fairly low volume.
Since there seems to be no stopping people making OT posts and continuing OT threads on this list maybe everyone that subscribes to this list for the purpose of asking questions about and using SuSE Linux could move over to the low volume (OT) list and leave this list for those that really should be posting on the other list. No-one will be the wiser because if they were on the OT list where they belong they wouldn't be posting here.
To paraphrase Loydd Bridges from the movie "Airplane" "I chose a bad month to quit drinking" :-(
If anyone is interested (which I'm afraid they are not) The SuSE-Linux-e faq that we all recieved when we signed up had this to say about (OT) off topic posts...
A17. Sorry, we really have no choice. We've asked nicely over the years for people to take their off-topic threads elsewhere in the interestof keeping the messages per day on SLE under 200 and, well, that just didn't work. We now have a list, suse-ot, that's devoted solely to off-topic discussions. That's right, all off-topic all the time. Email suse-ot-subscribe@suse.com to subscribe.
This is really a great idea! :D I hope the people who post frequently here, mark a message as OT if appropriate, /and/ set the Follow-up header to suse-ot@suse.com. Cheers, Leen
Leendert wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Great Idea' on Fri, Oct 29 at 12:09:
On Thursday 28 October 2004 07:50, David Herman wrote:
Having just deleted more than half of todays messages to the list because they were OT (although most not marked as such) I had an Idea,
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This is really a great idea! :D
I hope the people who post frequently here, mark a message as OT if appropriate, /and/ set the Follow-up header to suse-ot@suse.com.
It's a whole lot easier to just continue off-topic, blissfully unaware of what's going on with the suse-ot list. :) Changing subjects an reply-to lines is a lot of work! --Danny, basking in the bliss that is ignorance with regards to suse-ot
On Mon November 1 2004 12:29 pm, Danny Sauer wrote:
Leendert wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Great Idea' on Fri, Oct 29 at 12:09:
On Thursday 28 October 2004 07:50, David Herman wrote:
Having just deleted more than half of todays messages to the list because they were OT (although most not marked as such) I had an Idea,
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This is really a great idea! :D
I hope the people who post frequently here, mark a message as OT if appropriate, /and/ set the Follow-up header to suse-ot@suse.com.
Not really what I had in mind Actually I was presenting a tongue in cheek option in hopes that our heavy OT POSTERS would get the idea and take their OT posts where they are welcome, unfortunately it appears (as evidenced by the continuing OT threads) that a bigger hammer is needed.
It's a whole lot easier to just continue off-topic, blissfully unaware of what's going on with the suse-ot list. :) Changing subjects an reply-to lines is a lot of work!
--Danny, basking in the bliss that is ignorance with regards to suse-ot
I just figured that since the OT posters refuse to go to the OT list, then perhaps those that have actual questions and answers could move to that list and bask in the low volumeness of it all ;-) Perhaps SuSE-OT could come to mean OnTopic see ya -- dh
At 01:18 PM 11/2/2004 -0800, David Herman wrote:
On Mon November 1 2004 12:29 pm, Danny Sauer wrote:
Leendert wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Great Idea' on Fri, Oct 29 at 12:09: /snip/
Not really what I had in mind Actually I was presenting a tongue in cheek option in hopes that our heavy OT POSTERS would get the idea and take their OT posts where they are welcome, unfortunately it appears (as evidenced by the continuing OT threads) that a bigger hammer is needed. /snip/
Isn't this message OT????????? --doug
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 00:59, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Isn't this message OT?????????
You mean messages discussing what is and what is not OT need to go to suse-ot? Nah. I think these kind of messages are just on the right side of the border. Cheers, Leen
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