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[Darcy Casselman]

Congratulations, Bob, you are now a list moderator. :)

Darcy.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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> On 14-02-22 09:30 PM, David M. Pelly wrote:
> > I have a question to all you techies out there.
> >
> > And it is not a Ubuntu question.
> >
> > So I hope no one minds.
> >
> > This forum is not overly busy with conventional use, anyways.
>
> It turns out people *do* mind.  Here's a message I received this
> afternoon:
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> > @bobjonkman so after seeing the Skype recommendations/cheering in
> > the ubuntu-ca ML this weekend, i unsubscribed :(
>
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> The reason topical mailing lists exist is to focus interest on that
> one particular topic.  This is an Ubuntu mailing list, and the topics
> that are discussed are pretty broad. How to use MagicJack with Ubuntu,
> or how to install Skype in Ubuntu would be fair game. But getting
> recommendations for a proprietary, non-free, privacy-robbing service
> not even remote related to operating systems isn't one of those topics.
>
> People are busy, but some make the effort to contribute to the
> community anyway. When others don't respect that investment of time by
> knowingly and deliberately flaunting mailing list etiquette we get
> people dropping out. This person was a long-time contributor and
> participant, and the Ubuntu Canada team is made poorer by the loss.
>
> - --Bob, who is an opinionated blowhard but not a list moderator.
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