<OT>Re: list moderator losing perspective?

[Tony Alfrey]

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.
>>
>> So it strikes me that maybe the list moderator is more annoyed by the 
>> fact that other list members seem to think that the windoze thread had 
>> relevance in spite of the list moderator's grumpiness, and that the 
>> list moderator has decided unilaterally and subjectively that one 
>> thread is appropriate and another is not, in spite of the fact that the
>> "Re: [OT] Interesting trip"
>> thread had nothing to do with linux or even computers in general.
>> Perhaps posting pictures of the list moderator's trip to Death Valley, 
>> which I BTW enjoyed, also is inappropriate.
>> Get a life, "list moderator".
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Tony: Linux natively provides access, i.e. read/write, to W*****s, but 
> the reverse is not true.
> On would think a mail list, especially one that has been around since 
> Linux crawled out of a cave, would reflect the same openness as the OS 
> that spawned it.
> 
> Perhaps this discussion should be resumed under the rubric:  
> "Paradigmatic Dichotomy of Fenestral and Heterodox Operating Systems in 
> Transient Social Ideological Mobility."
> 


Lonnie and I had a very heated discussion about this topic off-list 
already 24 hours ago.  This reply was withheld from the list while I was 
"moderated" (don't get me started on what I think the equivalent of that 
is).  I thought that we had reached some sort of truce and I essentially 
decided to drop the whole issue, expecting that this post would fall 
into the mysterious electronic trash can in the sky, but I see it is back.
I think the fact that several list members provided me with very, very 
useful information which solved my problem, and that the thread was 
short-lived indicates that the topic deserved consideration; clearly 
Lonnie and I disagree about that.  But Lonnie has strongly suggested 
that topics that are not narrowly linux-focused be preceded by <OT>. 
I'm happy to follow that suggestion.  And I'm done with this topic, too.
Thanks!


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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"