IRREGARDLESS

[Tom H]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:36 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, btw, he was criticized for giving INACCURATE and even WRONG Ubuntu
>>> technical help.
>>
>> True  but he was criticized for blogging too, which is less off-topic
>> than "irregardless." His useless technical "help" is a different topic
>> altogether.
>
> I was almost half tempted to search for "irregardless" in the archive
> for September to see what struck the OP's chord so hard that the OP had
> to post.

I suspect that he/she was bored...

> I, therefore, would rather tolerate off-topic posts that are not in bad
> taste but not drivel from self-assumed experts in on-topic threads. The
> list rule "technical support for ubuntu only" can be buried for all I
> care because that rule would have prevented, for example, Rashkae from
> provided one gem of information regarding ON-LINE UPS systems had he
> stuck to that rule besides not being very conducive to building the
> community.

I remember that thread and Rashkae excellent info but I don't remember
why it might have been considered off-topic.