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

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 07:32:44PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> However... it seems that this list is mostly used these days for
> offtopic crap, and for technical queries which get referred to the
> forums.

People need to learn that mailing lists *always* have some off-topic
content, partly because topics drift, partly because people have
different notions of what, precisely, is on-topic, and partly because
people are lazy and/or arseholes. The amount of traffic on this list is
so low that what off-topic stuff we get just doesn't matter. Learn to
ignore it if you don't care about it, just like I ignore anything about
Windows.

> Is there still a benefit to having this list at all? Would we be better
> off shutting it down entirely?

Yes. No. Better to shut down the forums, as mailing lists are always a
better way of communicating than web forums are.

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