Offtopic Posts [was Re: [CentOS] [OT] Memory Models and Multi/Virtual-Cores -- WAS: 4.0 -> 4.1 update failing]

Tue Jun 28 23:30:36 UTC 2005
Chris Mauritz <chrism at imntv.com>

Ajay wrote:

>Too bad to see a guy like Bryan being accused of trolling......
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Indeed.  Sometimes, he's got very useful information.  However, a LOT of 
times it's just hot air.  VERY hot air.  And it's tiresome.  If he could 
just self regulate rather than indulging in the OCD-esque posting 
frenzies, I'd have just rolled my eyes at it.  But it's gotten to the 
point of being really annoying and just wasteful of bandwidth.

>A mailing list like centos-offtopic will surely be very useful.
>questions like "which server is best with centos" etc etc can be asked
>and replied in detail here.
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This is even more of a waste of time. People that disrupt lists (either 
out of a sense of being naughty or out of a sense of not being able to 
control OCD-like urges) do so precisely because it is widely viewed.  If 
you relegate things to an "off topic" list, the "naughty" people 
certainly won't use it because it dilutes the effect of their posting.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I get a few hundred 
messages a day on a typical day.  I prefer to get messages in email.  I 
like email!  It's a wonderful thing.  But when it becomes polluted with 
inane arguments from people who just like to hear themselves argue.....I 
don't possess the typing WPM skills or the desire to interact with those 
types of people to get any benefit out of the discourse.  And I'll be so 
bold as to say that a lot of people on a technical newsgroup fall into 
that category (not wanting to wade through inane crap).  Bryan, can you 
please just cut it out?  Jeeezus...I've been a member of this mailing 
list for a year or so and you're the ONLY person who's tripped my "shut 
the F up" meter.  I hate to be so blunt, but I don't know what else to 
do other than just filter your posts (which I've done).

And now back to technical discussions of CentOS..

Cheers,

C

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