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

[Nick Wood]

Here, Here - the only off topic responses I object to are people moaning 
about OT mailings, usually those who don't seem to contribute much anyway. I 
find this list very educational especially the superb contributions from 
Vangelis whose input alone is worth keeping this list for.

Nick Wood

-----Original Message----- 
From: tellyaddict
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 8:23 PM
To: get_iplayer
Subject: Re: Offtopic noise: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...

I think there is still a benefit to having the list.

I don't really mind the off topic stuff and if I don't want to read it then 
I won't. I have learned some interesting things from the stuff that gets 
posted here. I've learned stuff about Audio/Video Factory and composing 
commands etc that I wouldn't otherwise have learned from the forums alone. 
There are also other users here who offer support on the list but aren't on 
the forums.

> 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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