Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people! <OT>

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:01:43 -0400
Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as sounder goes, on the old Caldera List we yakked away on it,
> but made darn sure that those who couldn't care less about this kind
> of over-the-fence-yak could easily filter it out with <OT> on the
> subject line. Those that enjoy longish threads that arise from some
> topic, when some forgotten memory was called forth to be shared... If
> the <OT> rule was/is fastidiously applied, there is the best of both
> worlds. 
> 
> It's a thought. But, that was in the "Old Days". Ric

I believe the difference to be one of the, "new vs old," type
generation gaps.  I know that most all of the younger people I am
exposed to (don't go there) would have a hard time with some of the OT
threads on Sounder (or here, for that matter), not because of content
but because the threads are TL and they DR.
("too long," and, "didn't read," for all you other oldies)

Today, conversation, if it can be so termed, is carried on through
character-limited text messaging/twitter or on sound byte-influenced
IRC venues. Even the TV and radio are all about the short sound byte,
not the in-depth news to which we of an older generation are used.

Its all about the personal attention span as evidenced everywhere in the
whole Sounder debacle.

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
Sounder members, especially the most opinionated ones, are needed in
the Ubuntu community for that community to be healthy and strong.
       Chris Puttick