Stop the maddness!

[Dan Jenkins]

Benjamin Scott wrote:

>  Okay, do we need to split the list into <on-topic> and <off-topic> or
>  what? <snip> This kind of thing has caused the signal-to-noise ratio
>  of this forum to go crashing through the floor. Worse still, it
>  chases people away. People begin to see GNHLUG (and thus the entire
>  Linux community) as noisy, argumentative, and unhelpful. I consider
>  that a major loss.
>
>  So, I respectfully request that everybody here (and I include myself
>  in this admonition) try and keep the politics and other off-topic
>  noise off this list, and in a more appropriate forum (of which, as
>  others have noted in the past, there are many).

I totally agree. When I see such discussions start up, I usually stop 
reading for a few days to a week or I set a delete filter. So, the 
discussions usually don't impact me much, but often do make me go away 
for awhile. This time it was annoying because I was travelling and I 
don't have my filters on my remote mail. So, I had to weed through alot 
of extra junk in my inbox - all having no more Linux value than the 
Viagra ads.

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