[Trilug-ontopic] Proposal to close this mailing list

Brian McCullough bdmc at buadh-brath.com
Sat May 18 00:39:21 EDT 2013


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:59:54PM -0400, Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote:
> On 05/17/2013 04:54 PM, Tarus Balog wrote:
> >On 05/17/2013 04:24 PM, Dwain Sims wrote:
> >>Close it.  Not sure I ever understood what it was for anyway.
> >
> >Every few years we get a large, non-Linux-y thread, like which NC BBQ is
> >better (western or eastern). Some people objected, but rather than
> >remove the social nature from this list, the "ontopic" list was created.
> >
> >Never really used it, either.
> >
> >-T
> >
> Then it was miss-named.  It should have been 'OFF-topic' or 'other'.
> As it stands, it is something less than useful.

Actually, there was such a list, too.


Brian



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