Ajay wrote:
>Too bad to see a guy like Bryan being accused of trolling......
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Indeed. Sometimes, he's got very useful information. However, a LOT of
times it's just hot air. VERY hot air. And it's tiresome. If he could
just self regulate rather than indulging in the OCD-esque posting
frenzies, I'd have just rolled my eyes at it. But it's gotten to the
point of being really annoying and just wasteful of bandwidth.
>A mailing list like centos-offtopic will surely be very useful.
>questions like "which server is best with centos" etc etc can be asked
>and replied in detail here.
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This is even more of a waste of time. People that disrupt lists (either
out of a sense of being naughty or out of a sense of not being able to
control OCD-like urges) do so precisely because it is widely viewed. If
you relegate things to an "off topic" list, the "naughty" people
certainly won't use it because it dilutes the effect of their posting.
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I get a few hundred
messages a day on a typical day. I prefer to get messages in email. I
like email! It's a wonderful thing. But when it becomes polluted with
inane arguments from people who just like to hear themselves argue.....I
don't possess the typing WPM skills or the desire to interact with those
types of people to get any benefit out of the discourse. And I'll be so
bold as to say that a lot of people on a technical newsgroup fall into
that category (not wanting to wade through inane crap). Bryan, can you
please just cut it out? Jeeezus...I've been a member of this mailing
list for a year or so and you're the ONLY person who's tripped my "shut
the F up" meter. I hate to be so blunt, but I don't know what else to
do other than just filter your posts (which I've done).
And now back to technical discussions of CentOS..
Cheers,
C
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Chris Mauritz
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VP & Chief Technology Officer
Independent Music Network
http://www.imntv.com
