The content of the email I received off list below should be 
self-explanatory.

I again ask for a simple clarification:  are engineering deployment 
issues -- design issues to the deploying engineering staff but NOT 
necessarily internal design issues to the vendor engineers responsible 
for the actual production of the entity (hardware, software, whatever) 
being deployed -- appropriate to this list, or only technical support 
questions on deployed systems?

If the latter, then discussions of deploying SL N vs. SL M, M not equal 
N, are NOT appropriate, as these are field deployment issues, as are the 
deployment comparisons of RHEL K, SL K, CentOS K, and any other RHEL 
clones of release K.  In that case, apologize to Mr. (Dr.?) Linder or 
anyone else whom I might have inconvenienced by attempting to get 
certain inappropriate engineering questions addressed.  Because this is 
a threaded list (as has repeatedly been pointed out to those of us whose 
email client applications do not default to a threaded display), rather 
than "trashing" any individual, one can selectively filter and reject 
threads to which one objects or has no interest.  Or is the capacity of 
the Fermilab email/list server not large enough to handle/store such 
additional traffic?

Yasha Karant

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Subject: Re: The Clone Wars – CentOS vs. Scientifi c Linux  -  WHO CARES
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You obviously have a an English comprehension problem.
You have been added to TRASH list.

On Wednesday 27 July 2011 11:35 am, you wrote:
> On 07/27/2011 05:07 AM, Larry Linder wrote:
> > If you want to talk about trash go elseware - this is just NOISE - I
> > don't care !!!!!  -  don't want to sort threw "JUNK".
> > So the noise makers - I added your nmae to E-Mail filters ->  /dev/null
> >
> > If you don't have something technical to contribute or need technical
> > help - please.
> >
> > Larry Linder
> >
> > On Wednesday 27 July 2011 5:43 am, Tom H wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Andreas Petzold
> >>
> >> <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
> >>> Can we please stop emails like this? It's getting really annoying. This
> >>> is a technical support mailing list.
> >>
> >> +1
>
> I am replying to this version of the thread -- I cannot tell from what I
> see (not having the full SMTP headers on display) whether or not the
> change in Subject has hijacked this thread -- in which case I am not the
> hijacker.
>
> I fully understand that is a "technical" list, and since posting the
> item to which there have been many comments but little data, have been
> informed of the existence of SL fora.  I must point out that the fora to
> which I have been directed are not maintained at Fermilab/CERN sites.
>
> To me, "technical" includes "engineering".  A significant decision of
> engineering is choice of instrumentality, including design, development,
> and testing methodologies of any particular instrumentality.
> Instrumentalities in computers include operating systems and their
> environments.
>
> I apologize that I did not understand that for this SL list, "technical"
> is restricted to "support" issues -- make what is part of SL (RHEL?)
> work, post fixes, or declare non-fixable for now.  Is it appropriate to
> enquire on this list for a description/documentation on the actual
> development process of SL from RHEL source RPMs?
>
> Yasha Karant