[OT] 20 years of linux

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 13:56 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: 
> On 03/07/11 11:18, NoOp wrote:
> > On 07/01/2011 11:35 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >> On 02/07/11 15:57, NoOp wrote:
> >>> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/20th/
> >>
> >> Is this now officially recognised that by simply adding [OT] at the
> >> beginning of the Subject of a post to this list that one can post
> >> "offtopic" messages in this list?
> >>
> >> Oh, and provided, of course, such posts have some contents dealing with
> >> software which may or may not affect Linux and /or a Linux distro.
> >>
> >> If this is now an officially accepted practice then I would have liked
> >> to have posted quite a number of messages drawing members' attention to
> >> matters of interest as it may affect their, or friend's, use of a computer.
> > ...
> > Well you got me there BC. Y'all can killfile me&  my thread. Sorry for
> > the OT noise.
> 
> 
> Don't know what you are talking about, NoOp.
> 
> Don't be so paranoid :-) .
> 
> It was a serious question.
> 
> Sounder was removed for some flimsy reason and there is a need to be 
> able to post news of interest to members.
> 
> Does putting [OT] at the start of the Subject now provide an 'Offtopic' 
> sub-list to meet such a need?

It "may" help, as long as we're not drawing too much attention to it, so
we can skate a bit. :) Ric


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