I need the link to remove myself from the list

[Bob Jonkman]

...and in the same vein, for anyone who was offended/annoyed/enraged by 
the off-topic discussion, I recommend you read Clay Shirky's "A Group Is 
Its Own Worst Enemy":

 http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

In short, it says that despite an organizers' best intentions, a group 
will form its own structure.  Discussion can't be constrained to a 
particular topic, and rules won't be followed.  And yet the most 
successful groups are the ones that define themselves, without 
heavy-handed moderator interference.

What we've seen here is a self-correcting action by the group.  An 
off-topic item was posted, the group made its wishes clear, and it won't 
happen again.  Until the next time.  This is the normal way of things, 
so move along please, nothing to see here.

At least the Ubuntu-ca list hasn't descended to Godwin's Law...

--Bob.


Kenneth Hawkins wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I mostly just lurk here, but work intensively with Ubuntu (servers as 
> VBox hosts, plus LAMP servers as guests; my desktop is U8.10, & have 
> many single-purpose appliances)
>
> I have been a newsgroup/mailing list/forum subscriber since before the 
> "web" (anyone here remember BBS's?, 1200baud modems? Overnight floppy 
> image downloads?)
>
> ALL lists suffer from OTD at some point or another. No matter what 
> list you join, this will occur. In the old days of structured 
> moderation (also remember when that was a PAID job at some locations), 
> the restrictions on OT discussion actually stifled the sense of 
> community that can develop when folks with similar interests are 
> collaborating.
>
> I am more active in many international newsgroups, and despite many 
> Americans' anal-rectal inversion syndrome vis-a-vis economics & 
> politics, I find many of them very likable otherwise, and do not get 
> bent when the inevitable ranting starts up.  THAT IS WHAT THE DELETE 
> KEY IS FOR.
>
> Most email client programs also have the ability to automatically 
> filter out any postings from particular senders (we used to call that 
> the 'twit filt...
>
> *From:* Chris Kata <ckata at sparkinternetmarketing.com>
> *To:* The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Mon, October 26, 2009 8:28:28 AM
> *Subject:* Re: I need the link to remove myself from the list
>
> I am new to the group - so please excuse me if I am out of line. But I 
> agree as well. Perhaps a link to a off list blog post to carry on the 
> off topic conversation would have been better. But so far I like the 
> group and would not want to see anyone leave over this.
>
> Cheers,
> Christopher Kata
> Chief Technology Officer
> Spark Internet Marketing Corporation  
>
> E-mail. ckata at sparkinternetmarketing.com 
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>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mathenge at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
>
>     Personally, I don't see a lot of off-topic posts and I don't think
>     that going off-topic once in a while is a bad thing. Most lists
>     are bound to do this.
>
>     Cheers.
>
>     Andrew.
>
>
>     On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Chris <candive1 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:candive1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
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