[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Will <will at st0rage.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:30 -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Will <will at st0rage.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:11 -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>> >> Nobody tried to "kill discussion of it".  We just tried to explain to
>> >> you that the discussion wasn't welcome *on this mailing list*.  There
>> >> are other MythTV resources out there that aren't under the purveyance
>> >> of the owner of this mailing list.
>>
>> > So the owner of the mailing list also presides over IRC? Same reaction.
>> >
>> > And the main MythTV community is where this was brought up, for good
>> > reason.
>> >
>> > I understand; this has been talked about before. It would have helped if
>> > someone had linked to the old discussion, but even then several things
>> > IMO were brought up during this thread that were not covered in the old
>> > one.
>> >
>> > Is there a list on the wiki of taboo subjects, so this doesn't happen
>> > again? It would be nice to know which features/etc should not be talked
>> > about on the list that Isaac has strong opinions on.
>> >
>>
>> Don't know about IRC, and, frankly, don't really care.
>>
>> I believe that Dewey cut-and-pasted a bit from Nov '06 - the first
>> message you responded to - that you seemed to ignore.  It shouldn't
>> have been to difficult to find the rest of that discussion, no?
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>
> And as I said, other things were brought up that the old thread didn't cover.
>
> I find it ridiculous that we've come to arguing over whether people should be able to bring ideas onto the mythtv-users mailing list.
>
> I don't see why we can't have a discussion about this without being interrupted by "This was brought up 2 years ago, nothing has or ever will change!".
>
> But that's my bad; I thought this list was for MythTV users to discuss things in.
>

I don't see why people that have been told that the list owner doesn't
want particular topics discussed on the mailing list would rather
attempt to debate the validity of said request on the mailing list
than email the list owner directly.

The sarcasm-laden post will really help your position, though.


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