[D-community-offtopic] A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

[Slicky Johnson]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu at gmail.com> wrote:

> [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user]
> 
> [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Being the stubborn person that I am, I want to give one more chance
> to the -offtopic list for Debian users and/or developers.
> 
> Thanks to Holger Levsen, the list is currently hosted on 
> lists.alioth.debian.org by the Debian Community project and has some
> 30+ subscribers. However, activity is zero (not counting the
> occasional spam).
> 
> Interestingly, the OT threads on debian-user also went down a lot
> since a few years, for reasons unknown to me.
> 
> So, unless something happens on the list (apart from this thread and
> the spam) I intend to remove/delete the list within a month.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrei

Well I like the idea of this list, and it would be nice to see more
activity. I'm not exactly sure why the list would need to be killed.
Running out of space? lol.