kubutnu-users-owner (was Re: Intersting.......)

[Clay Weber]

On Sunday, November 10, 2013 04:21:30 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 09/11/13 09:16, Clay Weber wrote:
> > On Friday, November 08, 2013 05:50:28 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
> > > OK, but was there any need to send private mail to begin with?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Just asking.
> > 
> > Sure! Isn't it more polite or proper to keep such things off the list
> > itself?
> 
> If the post was really meant as a private, "in your ear whisper",
> message about a most serious matter then I wouldn't have made my comment.
> 
> But the post was also cross-posted to what I now found out was the
> private moderator mail list which, therefore, advised them, basically,
> "This is what I have just sent this person to put him in his place.
> Watch out for his future behaviour and we can then put him on the "To be
> Moderated list if he doesn't behave or bar him from the list".

This is a gross overreaction, and nowhere near reality. Moderating, let alone banning 
users is an extreme that is, well, an extreme rarity. 
 
> Just a couple of comments here. If I send a private message to someone
> relating to a matter mentioned in a thread I will start my message with
> words which indicate in no doubt that I am sending a private, off the
> list, message 

I can agree with this. 

> and if anyone has any idea of netiquette then they will
> know that the contents of the message cannot be made public without the
> sender's approval.
> 
> The second comment is that I will answer public messages publicly and
> private messages privately.
> 
> > > (I'll have to refine my filter in Thunderbird because if it sees
> > > 
> > > "kubuntu" it throws mail to 'kubuntu-users'
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > And I didn't know about the social divide between the riff-raff who use
> > > 
> > > the list [kubuntu-users] and those who own it [kubuntu-users-owner]
> > :
> > :-) .
> > 
> > I lol'd at that :)
> > 
> > list-owner is simply an email for list *admin* messages and the like,
> > such as spam, subscription/unsub, errors, and other notifications. It
> > is also a handy way to help inform someone that the message is from a
> > list admin, instead of someone the recipient may not know.
> 
> Then change the name to something along the lines of "admin" and not
> "owners".
> 
> > All simple and above board, actually. And I am still riff-raff most of
> > the time, especially when I dance the Time Warp :p
> > 
> > (I am using the list and my own email as I am not at my own computer
> > at the moment and can't recall the credentials.)
> 
> I take it from this that you are using it now as one of us plebs, right?

I have never *not* been one, believe it or not. Same for Myriam.
> 
> :-) And I therefore salute you!:-)
And I salute you back :)

Now, I am off to give my lady in NSW a ring. It's half past one in the morning here; I 
think I should have done that before attending to emails, lol!

> 
> BC




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Clay Weber (claydoh)
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