[arch-general] offtopic ml (WAS eons ago: Re: change in mount behaviour?)

[Heiko Baums]

Am Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:17:48 +0100
schrieb Martti Kühne <mysatyre at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:08:27PM -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> > ... soooo, how about an `arch-offtopic` list? then at least we'd
> > have somewhere to send these tangents, under pain of DEATH (er,
> > temp ban perhaps), vs. begging and pleading for them to die ...
> > since there is an obvious refusal to take them to the forum, or a
> > blog, or a diary under the pillow. (it would be cool if you could
> > re-assign a Message-ID to a specific list ...)
> > 
> > who's with me?
> 
> +1, wondering why no one picked that up yet.

This wouldn't change much. The original topic was Arch related. The
discussion about PA etc. evolved from this. So such a discussion
wouldn't be switched to another mailing list. Same for any other
similar discussions. See my try to change the subject from mount to PA.
The discussion about PA has mostly been continued under the original
subject.

And there's another disadvantage. This arch-offtopic list would most
likely not read by so many people and probably not by the "right"
people whatever that might mean.

A new mailing-list arch-offtopic would only be used for discussions
which are originally be totally offtopic. And probably not even then,
if someone isn't aware that his topic is offtopic.

So if such a discussion would indeed be moved to an arch-offtopic list
this would mean people can directly shut their mouth. So almost no
chance for changes.

People who are not interested in a thread can either ignore this
thread, just filter it out or move its e-mails to /dev/null with their
e-mail clients.

Heiko