[D-community-offtopic] NSA into Debian distribution!

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 10:24 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 2/14/14, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 11:07 -0500, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> >> On 02/12/2014 06:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> >> > On 13/02/14 10:24, latinfo at vcn.bc.ca wrote:
> >> >> Hello List
> >> >>
> >> >> I was very alert for almost 14 years,
> >> > <snipped>
> >> >
> >> > Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list.
> >> > Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org
> 
> >>      Makes me think of an article I saw yesterday:
> >> It's a scientific FACT: Online comment trolls are SADISTS * The Register
> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/study_shoes_that_online_comment_trolls_are_sadists/
> >
> > Bullshit! This is much more spam than the OPs message is spam! Please
> > folks stop posting irrelevant crap, at least mark your mails as OT or
> > send them to the OT mailing list.
> 
> Some are getting the hang of posting to d-community-offtopic, and I
> realised today, that in my (previous) response to this thread, I
> should also have posted to ot list, but CC'ed the troll, since I held
> quarter of a belief that the troll may have actually been seriously
> misguided (although I doubt that).
> 
> So now I have a new protocol:
> post reply to -ot
> CC the troll privately (unless it's someone I know is subscribed to -ot)
> 
> > Seriously! There is no argument that makes this statistic serious! There
> <snippety snip>
> 
> Come on Ralph! You of all people should see the humour/sarcasm/OT-ness
> of the comment. Really :)
> 
> The only outpoint is that we've all been posting to debian-user rather
> than d-community-offtopic, which is unfortunate, but we can continue
> to train ourselves to improve... I know that podium is hard to resist
> fellow debianites, but lets ... continue to try to resist the trolls
> ... and move our counter trolling/humour/ot-stuff onto -ot :)

Oops, yes I should have send it to the OT list, my apologies.