What is this forum for?

[Wojciech Puchar]

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> This list has been around of a LOOOONG time.  The rules haven't changed
> in the 10 years since I've been subscribed, and the list works 99% of the
> time.

But there are more and more new "users". It will not work that way another 
10 years.

> The few days a month where the discussion goes off-topic and turns into a
> flame war _are_ annoying, but not significantly distracting in the grand

It will be 30 days/month soon. Not flamewars, but off-topic noise.

Soon it will turn into KDE/CUPS/PHP/MYSQL/(add 100 other apps here) 
support.