what ever happened to linux?(Rep. Cleaver/immigration rants, etc.)

[Leo Mauler]

--- On Tue, 8/12/08, marlowe at antagonism.org <marlowe at antagonism.org> wrote:

> I highly recommend KCLUG set up a BS list, similar 
> to LEAP, where non-Open Source discussions can take 
> place.  I find this helps to minimize the signal to 
> noise ratio for those who wish to just concentrate 
> on OSS.

In my experience creating a new mailing list for people to which to take their unrelated discussions, results in an empty BS list and the same level of OT discussions on the original list.

Sometimes people just don't want to bother going somewhere else, and sometimes those on the free E-mail providers have used up all their E-mail filters already and don't have one free to use for yet another mailing list.  Plus there's the added disincentive of the new BS list containing entirely inflammatory messages: no one wants to subscribe to a daily dose of inflammatory messages.  Dodging the cow patties in the existing mailing list is somewhat preferable.

Plus the instant you mention such a list, someone will start a "censorship!" flamewar, and none of us wants that.