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Re: Debian social

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Debian social
Date	2018-12-11 18:00 +0100
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On 2018-12-11, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-12-10, Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Beyond that, I *thought* I remembered a few times seeing long
>> > threads being (politely) advised to move it on over to offtopic,
>> > meaning the listserv I thought I remembered..
>> >  
>> 
>> Yeah, but apparently the off-topic group was consistently drifting
>> on topic to the point where many were advised to move there technical
>> prolixities and proclivities over here (and vice versa, of course, as
>> you've pointed out).
>> 
>> You can't win.
>> 
>
> As I've pointed out before, this list is named debian-*user*, not
> debian-technical-things-only-or-you-will-burn-in-hell-for-eternity.

Did I say that? 

What you quoted up there of mine (where I said there instead of their
up there) was an attempt at jocularity. I know you're the moral arbiter
around these parts, repeating yourself and pointing things out and all,
but give me a break.
 
> Debain users will mostly talk about Debian issues, but not necessarily
> exclusively.
>


-- 
He used sentences differently from any other prose writer. He always sounded
like a slightly drunk man who is very melancholy, who has no illusions about
life, who is very strong but whose strength is entirely unnecessary.
--Krasznahorkai on Krúdy

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Debian social Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2018-12-10 17:10 +0100
  Re: Debian social Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-10 17:30 +0100
  Re: Debian social deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-10 21:40 +0100
    Re: Debian social Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2018-12-10 23:10 +0100
      Re: Debian social deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-11 00:40 +0100
      Re: Debian social songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-12-11 13:10 +0100
    Re: Debian social Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-12-11 01:20 +0100
  Re: Debian social Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-10 23:50 +0100
    Re: Debian social Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-11 00:20 +0100
      Re: Debian social Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-12-11 22:00 +0100
    Re: Debian social Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-12-11 10:20 +0100
      Re: Debian social Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-12-11 10:30 +0100
      Re: Debian social Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-12-11 15:10 +0100
        Re: Debian social Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-12-11 18:00 +0100
          Re: Debian social Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-12-11 22:00 +0100
          Re: Debian social Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-12-11 22:00 +0100
        Re: Debian social Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2018-12-11 18:30 +0100

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