On 9/22/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Marco Chiesa wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Can you guys take it off list? This channel doesn't need (more) off topic discussions.
This thread is marked as off topic in the subject - it's pretty easy for people to ignore.
Why on Earth should the people that are not interested in this the ones that should filter this thread?
Because we can't possibly know who will and who won't be interested. It's much easier for the uninterested people to filter.
What about having your OT discussion somewhere else, where you may find interested people?
Economics is important to the long range planning and future of Wikimedia.
True, but where this thread is going seems more like something for the foundation employees to worry about than something to poll mailing list participants on. I think people are right that this thread was off-topic. I just figured it was acceptable to talk about off-topic stuff in this mailing list.
I wonder if it'd make sense to have a list for talking about the "real world" (offtopic-l). Or maybe wikien-l is an appropriate forum for that. I personally don't mind at all when people go off-topic, so long as they do so in a separate thread (and don't add a random number of "K"s to the end of the subject).
Remember when the IRC channels were first plagued with this question?
From what I heard it was all downhill from there.