[PLUG] What is on-topic

J Henshaw jeff at jhenshaw.com
Thu May 30 14:47:03 UTC 2002


Lets charge a nickel for every OT in the subj line and send it to K12
project

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miller, Jeremy" <JMILLER at ci.albany.or.us>
To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 7:21 PM
Subject: RE: [PLUG] What is on-topic


> What is on-topic?  What should move to PLUG-Talk?
>
> I'd say both this discussion, and the one that spawned it.
>
> How about moving both over to Talk?
>
> <snip>
>
> > The thread in question had very little to do with philosophy.
> > It was about
> > open source vs. proprietary software (including Linux) in the
> > schools.
>
> Um... how is that not philosophy?
>
> > It
> > was on topic and an interesting and timely topic as important
> > to Linux and
> > the future of Linux as anything else discussed here.
>
> I agree totally that it was interesting and timely.  But if it didn't fall
> under the umbrella of the Talk list, I don't know what does.
>
>
> > With all due respect Carla, the list is not just for what you came to
> > talk about it is also about what interests others.
>
> True, but if others start requesting it to be moved, why not?  It can't be
> that hard.  (I'll raise my hand as a contributor to that one, but can make
a
> mental note to look for stuff appearing in Talk if people ask for it to be
> moved.)
>
> > I
> > routinely delete those
> > emails that don't interest me and read the ones that do interest me. I
> > recommend that you do the same.
>
> I reccomend subscribing to Talk, which is where everyone is suggesting
this
> stuff moves to.
>
> Again, including THIS thread.
>
> (What is the use of me subscribing to Talk, if this stuff ISN'T in there.
> Maybe I WANT to see this kind of stuff sometimes, without wading through
the
> technical discussions to find it. :)
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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