[asterisk-biz] OT: Re: comepletely off topic political stuff

[Richard Lyman]

Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:00 +0000, Abdul Hakeem wrote:
>   
>> Conscience is the motor that drives any business. Proclaiming 'I am
>> not the one living in poverty in Gaza' does not strike that cord of
>> compassion, at least in my book. One might even be tempted to say I am
>> not the guy sitting on the 82nd floor of WTC on 9/11. Let's be
>> compassionate ...guys ! If it can happen to them so it can happen to
>> any one of us. We are just fortunate not be be born or live in that
>> particular section of the world.
>>     
>
> that does not matter on this list, this is not a political list, it is
> not a compassion list, it is not a middle east list, it is a asterisk
> business list, that requires 2 components - asterisk and business.  Even
> support requests get the same treatment, because they belong elsewhere
> (like the asterisk-users list).  This topic does not deal with asterisk
> (or telephony that can be related) and business, as such it does not
> belong here.
>
> There are plenty of places on the intarweb that it does belong, but this
> is not one of them.  I encourage everyone on this list to just drop this
> topic, any responses that further it in any form, take away from the
> list, its intent, and its charter.  
It might be nice if there were some moderation on this list (at least 
until people start following the rules).
Someone should bring it up with the digium guys.