OT: Re: I need the link to remove myself from the list

[Darryl Moore]

I feel the need to point out that all these posts about off topic posts,
are very far off topic.

There have actually been more off topic posts complaining about off
topic posts, than there were replies to the original post, which was
admittedly off topic.

If the people who were concerned about the proliferation of off topic
posts, simply stopped replying to the off topic posts, then there would
be a heck of a lot fewer off topic posts.

FYI: It is common netiquette to simply prepend OT: to subject line of
off topic  posts for the added convenience of those who do not wish to
read off topic posts.

Good day.

P.S. I apologizes profusely for this off topic post.

Kenneth Hawkins wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I mostly just lurk here, but work intensively with Ubuntu (servers as
> VBox hosts, plus LAMP servers as guests; my desktop is U8.10, & have
> many single-purpose appliances)
> 
> I have been a newsgroup/mailing list/forum subscriber since before the
> "web" (anyone here remember BBS's?, 1200baud modems? Overnight floppy
> image downloads?)
> 
> ALL lists suffer from OTD at some point or another. No matter what list
> you join, this will occur. In the old days of structured moderation
> (also remember when that was a PAID job at some locations), the
> restrictions on OT discussion actually stifled the sense of community
> that can develop when folks with similar interests are collaborating.
> 
> I am more active in many international newsgroups, and despite many
> Americans' anal-rectal inversion syndrome vis-a-vis economics &
> politics, I find many of them very likable otherwise, and do not get
> bent when the inevitable ranting starts up.  THAT IS WHAT THE DELETE KEY
> IS FOR.
> 
> Most email client programs also have the ability to automatically filter
> out any postings from particular senders (we used to call that the 'twit
> filt...
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Chris Kata <ckata at sparkinternetmarketing.com>
> *To:* The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Mon, October 26, 2009 8:28:28 AM
> *Subject:* Re: I need the link to remove myself from the list
> 
> I am new to the group - so please excuse me if I am out of line. But I
> agree as well. Perhaps a link to a off list blog post to carry on the
> off topic conversation would have been better. But so far I like the
> group and would not want to see anyone leave over this.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christopher Kata
> Chief Technology Officer
> Spark Internet Marketing Corporation  
> 
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> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com
> <mailto:mathenge at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
> 
>     Personally, I don't see a lot of off-topic posts and I don't think
>     that going off-topic once in a while is a bad thing. Most lists are
>     bound to do this.
> 
>     Cheers.
> 
>     Andrew.
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Chris <candive1 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:candive1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Sorry
> I need the link to remove myself from the list.
> I have a brain injury and sometimes get confused.
> Thank you

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