| Art Alexion on 26 Nov 2007 17:46:36 -0000 |
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On Monday 26 November 2007 02:38:15 Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > Also, those who take the bait are part of the problem too. ÂIf you know > someone just posted something off-topic, don't post your equally off-topic > reply to it on the list! ÂIf you're absolutely dying to reply to the post, > reply to the author directly, not the whole list. > > It's not much to ask: just use your head, try not to annoy others. ÂThat > way we can all have a good time. I've been on this list for over 7 years now and one of the things I learned is that when a question is asked and no one responds, it is because either (1) no one knows the answer, or (2) no one else cares, or (3) both. It's not necessarily a bad question (a lot of those get answered) nor just missed (by everyone? not likely). So I agree with Matt that taking the bait is equally off topic. Just like the unanswered tech posts, if an OT post is ignored, it just goes away... (by the way, I have some minimal curiosity about whether open source supporters have identifiable political leanings AND I think it is no more OT than discussions of commercial Mac OSX which I've never read anyone object to. Everything is political -- maybe not in the two-party, go vote sense, but you are naÃve if you don't think conversations about OSS vs. proprietary software aren't political) Attachment:
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