[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Tim Schmidt]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> By all means, feel free to complain or engage some other method toward
> arriving at a social consensus.  I doubt you'll get much though, for
> the same reason this discussion has been so lively: many of us _want_
> to discuss the topic, and it was broached politely - without demands.
> Further, the original post asks if there might be a better place for
> information, and implies the desire to foster a group that may result
> in such a place.
>
> As a whole, LUGs tend not to be hostile to off topic ideas...  but we
> do have informal (and sometimes formal!) codes of behavior.  As
> evidenced by the popularity of this thread, I believe it passes
> muster.

In other words, the topic - though distasteful - was not what got
people so upset about the BSOD thread.  It was the behavior.

--tim