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Re: Old geeks and thread drift

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In comp.os.linux.misc Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2026-04-03 16:45, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> [Followup to alt.unix.geeks ignored.]
>> Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> wrote:
>>> I love the banter between the dozen or so people that make up most of
>>> these chats, but it seriously clutters up comp.os.linux.misc and
>>> alt.comp.os.windows-11 to the point that they are practically unusable
>>> for the technical questions that they are supposed to serve, and for
>>> which I also do occasionally need them.
>>>
>>> I *really* wish people would move all the wildly off-topic chatter to
>>> alt.unix.geeks *as soon as they go off-topic. I also with they would
>>> change the subject line when the follow-up becomes completely unrelated
>>> to what the subject line says.
>> 
>>    I think it's not logical if Windows users, who are a part of said
>> audience, have to move to a Unix group.
> 
> It is an empty group, there were no messages there for years. Just a 
> convenient place by agreement, instead of creating a new group.

The sad thing is occasionally I peek into the huge threads in
comp.os.linux.misc that I start always marking as read once
they go too OT, and discover about 500 posts down people have
actually started talking about something I'm interested in. Often
I'm subscribed to a group dedicated to that topic which has been
dead for years, but here people _are_ talking about it in a place
I'm unlikely to find, and where I won't reply because it only
commits me to wading through hundreds more OT posts later to find
the responses (plus it's just contributing to the problem for other
people).

At least it would be more organised if such talk was separated from
Linux questions, but it'd be real nice if people actually started
using groups relevent to the topics again. A hopeless dream, I
know.

>>    Anyway, moving threads to another group hardly ever - if ever - works.
> 
> It does, albeit slowly :-)

Although cross-posts from comp.os.linux.misc to the Linux advocacy
group a little while back only added a whole lot more noise coming
back in the other direction for a time, from my perspective. At
least an empty group is low-risk for that, although expecting
Windows 11 users to post to a Unix group seems like quite a
stretch.

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Old geeks and thread drift Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-03 05:31 -0700
  Re: Old geeks and thread drift c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-04-03 10:37 -0400
  Re: Old geeks and thread drift Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-03 14:45 +0000
    Re: Old geeks and thread drift Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2026-04-03 16:05 +0000
      Re: Old geeks and thread drift c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-04-03 14:27 -0400
        Re: Old geeks and thread drift Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-03 19:29 +0000
          Re: Old geeks and thread drift "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-04-03 15:07 -0500
      Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-03 22:48 +0000
        Re: Old geeks and thread drift Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-04-04 07:14 +0200
          Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-04 05:29 +0000
    Re: Old geeks and thread drift Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-04-03 18:10 +0000
      Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-03 22:50 +0000
      Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-04 05:55 -0700
        Re: Old geeks and thread drift Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-04 14:10 +0000
          Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-04 14:21 +0000
            Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> - 2026-04-04 15:57 +0000
              Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-04 14:00 -0700
                Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-04 22:17 +0000
                Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-05 10:42 -0700
                Wayland vs. X11 (Was: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift)) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-05 18:28 +0000
                Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-05 04:02 +0200
                Re: Top posting Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-05 10:00 +0100
                Re: Top posting Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-05 12:41 +0000
        Re: Old geeks and thread drift rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-04 18:43 +0000
    Re: Old geeks and thread drift "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-03 22:20 +0200
      Re: Old geeks and thread drift not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-04 07:16 +1000
        Re: Old geeks and thread drift Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-04-04 21:12 +1100
          Re: Old geeks and thread drift The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-04 13:22 +0100
    Unix-ness of Windows NT (was: Re: Old geeks and thread drift) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-04 00:18 +0100
      Re: Unix-ness of Windows NT Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-04 14:41 +0100
    Re: Old geeks and thread drift "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-04 18:52 +0200
      Re: Old geeks and thread drift Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-04-04 18:10 +0100
        Re: Old geeks and thread drift "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-04 22:14 +0200
      Re: Old geeks and thread drift Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-04-04 13:14 -0700
    Re: Old geeks and thread drift Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-05 12:26 +0000

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