[GTALUG] 2 weeks on cell phone and chromebook... never again!

[Russell Reiter]

On Jul 23, 2016 10:02 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:
>
> On 2016-07-23 05:29 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
> >
> > This is a local mail list who's membership seems to be quite far
> > reaching geographically, so why not topically as well?
>
> Because this is explicitly a Linux user group mailing list, with

I'm with you there.

> guidelines that say:
>
> "Particularly for this list:
>
>     Don't be the guy on the soapbox,
>     Try to stay out of political, social, or religious issues,
>     Avoid bad jokes, personal rants or similar non-Linux related
discussion,
>     Any subscribers who offers or requests pirated software, license
> keys or cracks, and similar will be dropped from the list without
> warning, and

I'm with you here too.

>     No commercial advertising.

A job posting now and then never hurt anyone.

>
> Off topic messages will not be tolerated or endorsed."

I take this to mean don't hijack the thread topic.

If people are actively engaged and discussing something even remotely
related to Linux I can't see the harm.

This was my point about Linux world domination and how broad ranging the
subject of Linux has become.

My pet peeve is that people snip without noting which makes it difficult to
understand context of the topic even if you are trying to follow it. That
and top posting, but I'm not going to soapbox the issue, I'm going to go
with the flow.

The guidelines can say almost anything. At the end of the day the list is
the users and the users are the list.

People who are peeved with others can always block them. The list
administrators can block pirates and abusers if there is a consensus to do
so.

Heck we even occasionally have had threads about M$ and C# without problem.
Not exactly Linux but SAMBA does let us use M$ symmetric message blocks to
print to Windohs networks.

See three bad jokes in one paragraph, C#=CASH, for illustration only.

Compromising is the key to success in almost any circumstances. You never
have to compromise your principles on the list tho. You can always
unsubscribe or filter content you find objectionable.

>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
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