[plug] Middle East?

[wayne]

On Sunday, June 30, 2002 12:36am  Craig wrote:
> > Bury heads in th.....   ....nope, maybe I won't go there.
>
> In the end, its anybody here's choice to do exactly that, should they
> desire. Alternately, perhaps they avidly paricipate in relevent mailing
> lists, usenet discussion, meetings / discussion groups, etc. Either way,
> they're reading this list because they're interested in Linux and
> related stuff, and want to talk to people in and around Perth about it.
>
> The internet makes it even easier to choose to involve yourself in
> things as much, or as little, as you choose. Either way, there's no
> point in trying to bring in a lot of discussion well outside the stated
> topic of a forum, otherwise quickly we'll have thousands of homogenous
> groups all filled with _exactly_ _the_ _same_ _thing_ - whatever's big
> at that moment. That's what IRC and general discussion mailing lists are
> for. It'd be counterproductive to have _many_ discussions on parallel
> topics anyway, you have a lot of duplication.
>
> Sorry if I sound a bit sharp on this, but IMHO the amount of cruft on
> the list has been increasing, and I make a point of keeping track of
> news etc via other, more appropriate (or merely more direct: lwn, etc in
> the case of linux news) chanels, so most of the news posts etc are "seen
> it" or "will see it next time I see the site, and its not exactly time
> critical", and then there's the quite-OT stuff too. It makes it that
> much harder to keep up with the actual on-topic discussion on the list.
>
> I'm not in the "head in the sand" camp, but rather the "I'll choose
> somewhere more approprate to hold a conversation about this" camp.
>
> Anyway, my thoughts on this matter are done. In the world of real
> proportions on the serousness of things, it's only one more keypress to
> mark a thread, so its just not too important.

The time it took you to write that you could have said something on the
Middle East, could you?
C'mon, don't be shy!

Regards,
wayne