IRREGARDLESS

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Sat Sep 18 13:09:36 UTC 2010


Tom H wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ubuntu was not even mentioned for a good part of the thread leading to 
those posts. Power supplies could easily be marked: "Not Ubuntu related, 
take it to a hardware list."




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