off-topic posts

[Chris Norman]

I don't think the intention was to appear rude. We're all friends here.

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:50 -0500, John Heim wrote:
> Greg, I quite clearly explained what I was talking about.  If you want to 
> tell me I'm mistaken as to what is considered OT for this list, that would 
> be fine. I think it's reasonable for someone who subscribes to a list named 
> "speakup" to assume it's about speakup and NOT about orca. But whether the 
> orca posts are technically off-topic is not the point.
> 
> Maybe you disagree with me but there is no reason to be rude.
> 
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> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: off-topic posts
> 
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> > What off topic posts are you talking about? I don't recall having seen
> > any off topic posts recently.
> >
> > As for the ubuntu/orca/newby questions posts, this still deals with
> > gnu/linux. As far as I know, Kirk's policy has always been that
> > anything gnu/linux related goes. Unless Kirk has changed this
> > recently, all the recent ubuntu/orca/newby posts would seem to be
> > along those lines. Now, if Kirk has changed this recently, then you'd
> > be right that this is OT. My apologies to Kirk of course if anything
> > I've said here is out of line.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:34:16PM -0500, John Heim wrote:
> >> Is anyone besides me bothered by the huge number of off-topic posts to 
> >> this
> >> list?
> >>
> >> I guess I've gone OT a few times myself. But I think it was different 
> >> when
> >> *most* of the posts were about speakup and maybe somebody would ask about 
> >> a
> >> character-based program for whatever. It seems that the vast majority of
> >> posts to this list are now about ubuntu and/or orca.
> >>
> >> I know there is a list for orca developers. Maybe there should be one for
> >> ubuntu & orca users. And there is a list for blind linux users.
> >> (blinux-list-request at redhat.comm)
> >>
> >>
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