29 Oct
2020
29 Oct
'20
2:59 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:14:04PM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
When you signed up to this list, was it because you wanted somewhere to
discuss issues related to TDE, or because you wanted a social club?
There's a million places, on-line and off-line, that you can go for a
social club and a chin-wag. This, and the TDE-developers list, are
probably the only place in the entire world for users to ask about
TDE-related issues.
Nobody is saying that we have to run this mailing list like a
totalitarian dictatorship, only that people please make a bit of an
effort to keep the signal-to-noise ratio above 1. That still leaves
plenty of opportunity for socialisation while still keeping the focus on
TDE, which is the reason we're here.
Anno domini 2020 Wed, 28 Oct 16:03:49 -0500
J Leslie Turriff scripsit:
I doubt that
such a list would help. The reason that topics degenerate into
OT stuff is that participants' attention gets distracted from the original
purpose of the thread, so they are unlikely to say to themselves 'am I still
on topic?' If we were all that disciplined OT posts wouldn't happen in the
first place.
What's the problem with that? Maybe because politics tend to repeat history this
call for polital
correctness is needed?
Keeping a technical mailing list on-topic is not "political
correctness".
--
Steve