Hey everybody: Underwater basket weaving at my house on Saturday night! To make it Linux related, I will be using... (damn, I could not find any GPL basket weaving applications). :-) Kelly Black 2 year old a heart. On Monday 11 February 2002 23:03, Dan Churchill wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael Vieths > > I agree, too. If I wanted to know about basketweaving events, I'd joint > > a basketweaving group. If I wanted to know PC events, I'd join TCPC. I > > didn't, I joined a Linux group. TCPC doesn't need extra announcements, > > they've got their own list for that. > > I could agree that it might be appropriate to have such vitriolic responses > to a simple announcement for TCPC on this list *if* it had been an > announcement about some Windows-specific topic. It was for a meeting on > wireless networking, for crying out loud. It's as applicable to Linux as > to any other OS. It's of potential value to many Linux users, yet not a > topic that would necessarily be covered in a Linux user group sponsored > event. If so many think that announcements like this should be labeled OT, > I'm led to wonder why you don't get up in arms when *so* *many* other > discussions on this go completely off topic, but yet are not labeled as > such in the subject. > > Yikes. As upset as some of you seem to be over having a couple of posts in > one week for something moderately useful to a potentially significant > portion of the list, you wouldn't think that many of the same people > lambasting these posts would be the same ones who just last week were > posting boatloads of *crap* to this list just because they figured out how > to add an extra header to their outgoing mail in an attempt to frustrate or > anger Outlook users. Talk about *useless*. I'm beginning to wonder if > this list is populated by 2-year-old kiddies or reasonable, intelligent > adults. Okay, I'll retract that. There's only a very vocal few who are > really giving me the impression of the former... > > Cheers, > Dan