Offtopic noise: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...

[Owen Smith]

I don't follow the forums, and I don't use get_iplayer often. But when I do I'm moderately up to date with the current situation thanks to this list.

If the list stopped I'd probably stop using get_iplayer and turn to other means for the occasional programme I want on iPlayer.

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Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

> On 16 May 2016, at 19:32, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 00:38 +0100, Peter S Kirk wrote:
>> 
>> Stop the OT poltical campainging posts:
>> "Over 275,000 of us signed an emergency petition to keep the BBC
>> independent"
>> 
>> List is for GiP discussion and help ONLY.
>> 
>> Respect that and take politics elsewhere.
> 
> I have barred that thread, although I don't generally favour censorship
> as a solution to anything.
> 
> However... it seems that this list is mostly used these days for
> offtopic crap, and for technical queries which get referred to the
> forums.
> 
> Is there still a benefit to having this list at all? Would we be better
> off shutting it down entirely?
> 
> Likewise the git repository on git.infradead.org — if development is
> happening on github, there's no point in just mirroring it here, is
> there? I was happy to provide services (and even try to learn a bit of
> perl) when Phil Lewis bowed out, but it now seems that there's a fairly
> capable community around it and it's not clear what benefit I continue
> to provide...
>  
> -- 
> dwmw2
> 
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