Off topic posts on sounder

[Sasha Tsykin]

I don't think that anybody who writes something to the list considers it 
totally irrelevant, something you consider to be noise may be of 
interest to somebody else, ans probably is. Far easier to just ignore 
the threads which do not interest you.

Sasha

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Matthew East">
> 
>> There is a middle line to be drawn here. Yes, this list is for random
>> chit chat, but purposeless mails and mails which have nothing to do with
>> ubuntu and/or linux at all should really be addressed to other mailing
>> lists.
> 
> It's not so much about off-topic mails - it's about never-ending threads
> where people just can't resist putting their oar in about everything. That
> results in people unsubscribing due to mail load, and less interesting
> people flooding the list with 'dross' (which has less to do with content,
> more to do with usefulness).
> 
> sounder may be the general chit-chat list, but if we let it turn into a
> million-mail thread list, then the casual, fun, chit-chat would already be
> dead.
> 
> Let's keep the signal to noise ratio *great* on this list, so we can all
> enjoy it together.
> 
> - Jeff
>