[ale] Re: [OT] Enough of the OT Crap!!

[Geoffrey]

I agree with Todd.  Many of the folks who used to frequent the email 
list are still here, just not as active.  Most I recall, Todd's already 
mentioned (except Eric Ayers and his wife).  I don't believe the OT 
posts drove them away either, as I believe the rash of OT posts have 
been relatively recent, in comparison to the time frame in which I have 
seen the more active 'founders' fall relatively silent.

So, that prompts the question, why have you been so quiet of late Todd? 
(and others) :)

SanMillan, Todd wrote:
> I'm curious which one's have been driven away.  I'm not sure who you are
> referring to as founders, but my first ALE meeting was the second ever held
> and I helped out a little with the first Linux showcases, including the "get
> our feet wet" one on the Tech campus, so I think I know who the guilty
> parties are.  And in the last few months I have seen posts from Byron and
> Eric and Steve and Mike Warfield and David Hamm and Dan.  Yeah, a lot of the
> founders have gotten less active, but I hardly think many have been "driven
> away"  We were all playing with Linux when the idea of distributions was
> still getting off the ground.  I remember downloading Slackware to 56
> floppies over a 14.4 modem over many nights.  Believe me, reading mail and
> news over a slow link, you learned  that your kill file was your friend, so
> ain't no clearly marked off topic crap gonna drive too many away.
> 
> My $0.02
> 
> Todd SanMillan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Farris [mailto:chrisf at room17.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:37 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Re: [OT] Enough of the OT Crap!!
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:58:17PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
>>Hi John,
>>
>>This has already been decided long ago by the creators of ALE.
>>
>>    "ale: Main mailing list, for general Linux questions,
>>     discussions and information."
>>
>>     From: http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml
>>
>>
>>I wonder what drove away most of the ALE founders... perhaps it was all
>>
> the
> 
>>OT crap.  Sad.
>>
> 
> I don't know, maybe they graduated from school, got jobs, got wives, got
> kids, don't got time anymore.
> 
> I will point out how much bandwidth we have wasted whining back and forth
> about OT stuff was probably greater than the OT posts were before hand. So
> I think the lesson here is the louder you complain the worse it gets.
> 
> Chris
> 
> PS. Evolution rocks. Finally something useful came out of the gnome
> community. <duck> They even use mbox format for the mail so I can go back
> to mutt if I want to.
> 
> 


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to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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