On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:14:04PM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Wed, 28 Oct 16:03:49 -0500 > J Leslie Turriff scripsit: > > I doubt that such a list would help. The reason that topics degenerate into > > OT stuff is that participants' attention gets distracted from the original > > purpose of the thread, so they are unlikely to say to themselves 'am I still > > on topic?' If we were all that disciplined OT posts wouldn't happen in the > > first place. > > What's the problem with that? When you signed up to this list, was it because you wanted somewhere to discuss issues related to TDE, or because you wanted a social club? There's a million places, on-line and off-line, that you can go for a social club and a chin-wag. This, and the TDE-developers list, are probably the only place in the entire world for users to ask about TDE-related issues. Nobody is saying that we have to run this mailing list like a totalitarian dictatorship, only that people please make a bit of an effort to keep the signal-to-noise ratio above 1. That still leaves plenty of opportunity for socialisation while still keeping the focus on TDE, which is the reason we're here. > Maybe because politics tend to repeat history this call for polital > correctness is needed? Keeping a technical mailing list on-topic is not "political correctness". -- Steve ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
