On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:14:04PM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
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?
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.
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".