<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 4/10/2011 9:46 AM, Nathan Bahn wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:BANLkTi=bQtm-xXh8LC5hNDUF2NmHy-en0A@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Steve Furbish <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sfurbish@nerdshack.com">sfurbish@nerdshack.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 4/8/2011 11:07 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> +1 for this decision, however I suggest creating 2 other lists: ubuntu-politics and ubuntu-religion. </blockquote> </div> Or a third called ubuntu-pretentious-NWO-types.</blockquote> </div> S.F.-- ? N.B. </blockquote> Nathan, As a regular longtime peruser<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"> and seldom contributor to this list (they call us lurkers, I believe) it never ceases to amaze how many times the shutdown/off-topic threads appear. I'm just a retired American policeman (authoritarian issues of my own don't you know) who finds it amusing that so many highbrow intellectuals seem to reside here with nothing better to do than stomp the latest person or group deemed guttersnipe by the masses. They are clever for sure, but even with the obligatory on-topic Ubuntu musings which they never forget to include with their offerings one is unlikely to actually learn anything new. I have occasionally encountered edifying materials here, but it's really the politics and religious discussions that get the internationalists and nationalists and the various religious enthusiasts at each others throats and provide gruesome entertainment for the more warped souls among us. Steve </body> </html>