[Foundation-l] OT: The economics of debt and exchange rates (Was: Relocation announcement)

[Anthony]

On 9/22/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at 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?