[ubuntu-uk] UKTeam meeting update
TheVeech
theveech at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 17:26:06 BST 2007
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:15 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
> TheVeech wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:58 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> >> That kind of implies that there are no "learned rules" or "etiquette"
> >> on the
> >> [...]
> >
> > This is one of those areas where people mean well but tend to get
> > carried away with their emotions and prejudices.
> > [...]
>
> I've been around mailing list for a long time, and nothing disappoints
> me more than the enthusiasm with which people take up OTT arguments on
> lists like this: It's usually about renaming the list, or what the list
> 'policy' is about OTT threads, or if the list should be moderated and
> all sorts of other unimportant side issues that have little to do with
> the reason the list was created for in the first place, which is to be
> read by people with a common interest in the topic the list is about.
>
> FWIW, I think TheVeech is right: You don't have to read any of this and
> if you don't want to then don't. My criticism is that most of us don't
> want quite such a detailed explanation of what is self evident. We just
> want to talk to each other about Ubuntu, so let's do a bit more of that.
Point taken.
Can you post the torrent link for alternate i386 on the 19th :)
> Best wishes,
>
> Tony.
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