Re: Defending yourself
I try to ignore threads like these, but here's a few thoughts...
This list receives a good 100 messages any given day, and your complaining about a couple bogus messages that make it through?
Consider the other side of this policy, say an individual uses Debian and is getting a given error, he searches for the solution but after pouring though search results, forums, documentation, comes up empty. He just wants to ask somebody about it, and doesn't want to be bombarded with a 100 messages a day while trying to figure it out. ...I wonder whom is more inconvenienced... A couple unwanted messages to a couple hundred!
Second, If spam does make it through, most of the time it is obvious from the subject and can just be deleted, and if not, I like to give the benefit of the doubt that most users of this list just plain aren't that gullible/stupid.
And lastly, it irritates the tar out of me how many people come on the list, have never offered an iota of assistance to anybody, usually ask questions that clearly show they can't be bothered by searching, reading logs, or ever finding answers for themselves, but wanna debate group policy just the same...
Wanna dictate group policy? Start by helping the group, assist others, join the development team and actually work on the system, then once you have some cred, you can mention your concerns to the developers who make these decisions, you should know who's who quite well at that point.
And notably by that time they'll know you and might give a recital region of a small furry rodent about your opinions...
TeddyB
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