On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:03:18PM -0600, 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. There is TCWUG for that. > 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... Nope, they were other folks with those headers ;) florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020212/e964cf7f/attachment.pgp