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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Now That Novell is seling the Linux Division...
From:       Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln () mnsi ! net>
Date:       2010-09-24 4:41:29
Message-ID: 1285303289.8181.40.camel () P-733-Lin
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On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 12:19 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Thursday, 2010-09-23 at 08:21 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 23 September 2010 01:11:41 Philipp Thomas wrote:
> >> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:17:51 -0700, Tony Alfrey <> wrote:
> >>> osted topics and remarks that do not precisely
> >>> fit their preconceived notion of acceptability.
> >>
> >> They do not fit the topic of the list. And what would be so bad about
> >> moving this discussion to the offtopic list? But I'm giving up. Maybe
> >> it's really time for me to unsubscribe and go where I get what I
> >> wanted in the first place: technical discussions. EOD for me.
> >
> >
> > Nicely done guys.</sarcasm>
> >
> > While you are congratulating yourselves on running the "list police" out of
> > town, remember that Philipp is one of my few low level SUSE colleagues who
> > cared enough to spend time in here solving user problems down the bottom of
> > the stack.  Are you going to step up and answer those now, between enjoying
> > your hard-won freedom to discuss the sky falling?
> 
> It pains me learning he has left the list. But it also pains me that he 
> entered the fry to try to shut up the discussion, being staff. Staff 
> should not enter these threads, as they can not contribute anything they 
> really know, and should not even give that impression. So please, 
> just stand by the curb side.
> 
> The only thing any of you wanting the rest to shut up will get is angering 
> people.

  Not to mention that it is prolonging the thread, at this point it just
seems to be the anti-thread, and the anti the anti-thread folks doing
the vast majority of the posting.

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