list moderator losing perspective?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:25 -0500, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 
> >I'm now getting bounces from the list for replies to the thread
> >"Re: can't load windoze"
> >in spite of the fact that it was clearly linux-relevant, since it 
> >involved dual-booting of linux and windoze.
> >The message I'm getting is:
> >
> >Your request to the Linux-users mailing list
> >
> >     Posting of your message titled "Re: can't load windoze"
> >
> >has been rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the
> >following reason for rejecting your request:
> >
> >"Your message was deemed inappropriate by the moderator.  This thread
> >is off topic for this list."
> >
> >- - - - - - - - -
> >
> >The thread was essentially finished anyway.
> >However, I see that a thread with the topic
> >"Re: [OT] Interesting trip"
> >which started off as a discussion about a trip to Chernobyl and has now 
> >drifted to a discussion about recycled water seems to be acceptable with 
> >the list moderator.

When I posted that, I tried to remember the address of the off topic
list. I couldn't remember it (eye sight seems not to be the only
scarcity in these parts), so I added [OT] to the subject. I guess I
should have persisted and looked for a reference to the off topic list.
I keep interesting messages from this list and the off topic list, and,
oddly, did not see any off topic ones in my saved folder. I'm not sure
that that really means, but it resulted in me not having the address
available on the machine I was doing all this from.

Perhaps the list signature at the end of list message should add this
after the existing line:

Linux-users mailing list ( Linux-users at linux-sxs.org )
Off-list posts should go to what-the-hell-was-it-again at linux-sxs.org

> Perhaps this discussion should be resumed under the rubric:  
> "Paradigmatic Dichotomy of Fenestral and Heterodox Operating Systems in 
> Transient Social Ideological Mobility."

Couldn't come up with something sounding more obscure?

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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