[mythtv-users] OT: What is the Social Contract? (was Calendar stuff)

[Gavin Hurlbut]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gavin Hurlbut" <gjhurlbu at gmail.com>
>
>> >> Sorry to have offended you Kenni,
>> >
>> > I think you can ignore him and carry on as usual.
>>
>> I expect better than that from long-time users. This mailing list is
>> not a general Linux mailing list, it's for MythTV-related use.
>
> Well, I guess some people look at it that way, and some people look at it
> in the -- equally reasonable -- way that it's a *community of people* formed
> around MythTV and its use.  Even intentional communities such as this are
> composed of *people*.  30 years or more of mailing lists and other sorts of
> computer-mediated communication have proven that not only *can't* you keep
> everyone 100% on-topic at all times...

Oh please.  We have given far too much leeway on this in the past.
This list is for discussing MythTV, and not random banter.  Any
long-time user knows this as we have said it on several occasions.
Things that aren't even remotely related to MythTV do not belong on a
mailing list for MythTV.  We aren't hosting this for people to turn it
into a general chat list.

We've been very lax about the low signal to noise ratio here, and
haven't often complained about things that are at least related to the
subject at hand.  However, there are times when the line needs to be
made more clear, and this was one of them.