I hate top-posting. But I'm doing it to make things clearer. This is exactly what I got, and I find it very confusing. At least in my MUA (alpine) it looks as if the last block of text (which I know was written by Evan) is presented as original to Russell. I'm sure that this isn't Russell's intent, but it is the effect. About the content: - what's offlist? Wasn't all this on-list? - it's easy for a recipient to mistake an off-list reply with an on-list reply. I always try to add [PRIVATE] at the start of the subject to make this stand out. Alternatively, one could strip the [GTALUG], but that makes the threading less obvious. This is a manual step and I sometimes forget. - the current ferment in the US shows very clearly the cost of amplifying conspiracy theories credulously (or with malice). It sure seems that debunking is much harder than bunking. - The great thing about Linux distros is that none has much of a moat. If RH goes rogue, there are plenty of other distros to choose from. - Linux distros know that they don't have much of a moat so they tend not to do things that push users away. Or only do so for a worthwhile reason. | From: Russell Reiter via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | To: GTALUG Talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Cc: Russell Reiter <rreiter91@gmail.com> | Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 12:30:18 -0400 | Subject: [GTALUG] Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL | | Sorry but it would be helpful if offlist responses were labeled and trimmed | post's were noted, just for the sake of lessing confustion, if anything | else. For some reson my MTA missed a response post to the list and this one | is not labeled offlist, that part is kind of an informal protocol as I | recall. | | Sorry I'm a little confused, are you saying that skepticism about IBM's | > intentions is not the same as skepticism about Redmond's, simply because | > that it would be conspiracy theory to suggest that IBM would not tell | > everybody about the eventual business plan, at the same time. | > | | I'm saying that I don't trust the source -- based on crackpot comments from | the past, bolstered by recent conversations with RH employees saying the | claims were utter shit. | | - Evan | | | | -- | Russell |