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. > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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) > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > - -- > > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > > skype: gregn1 > > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > > > - -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFGNjHI7s9z/XlyUyARAl22AKDYO2C14aH9Sbyd2LQg8bbMursIvgCfYsze > > sifrpmIcONLx/M/Dy5EO+Lw= > > =7SO0 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems -- Chris Norman. <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> Catch me via e-mail, or on the PTFM MUD (telnet://ptfm.co.uk:4242). Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems
