[OT] get rid of OT

[Colin Law]

On 3 October 2011 14:35, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 03:41 AM, Patton Echols wrote:
>> ...
>> This entire discussion presupposes that ubuntu-users is broken and must
>> be fixed. While there are certainly threads that go spiraling out of
>> control, even the most verbal on those threads behave well by staying in
>> the thread, making it easy to ignore.
>>
>> If there are 5,000 subscribers, (five THOUSAND?!?) is the list really
>> broken? I find it hard to belive that so many people would stay
>> subscribed to a list that was all noise with no worthwhile signal.
>>
>>
>
> I don't believe the list is "broken". I seldom post, except a bit more
> lately, but have learned a lot from just reading. I find the <Delete> button
> to come in VERY handy for most of the traffic though.

I also do not believe that the list is broken, sometimes threads go
off the rails but they are easily ignored.  I started using Ubuntu a
couple of years ago and learnt a huge amount, both by asking questions
that now embarrass me when I look back and by following other threads.
 I now do my best, often not too well, to help others when I think I
know an answer.

I would be very sorry to lose such a valuable resource, and do not see
that there is any reason to close it down.  As posted above, if 5000
users are subscribed then how can it possibly be broken?

I also cannot understand why anyone would *want* to close it down,
what is the benefit to anyone to close it, compared to the benefit
that 5000 users get from the list?

Colin