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

[Peter S Kirk]

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On 16 May 2016 at 19:32, David Woodhouse 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
> 
> 
>