On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 01:40:10PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > The results: of 1596 postings, 1158 were from developers, 438 were not. > > These are the top posters amoung non-developers: > > 40 no: Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> This guy's in my killfile anyway. He's either a troll or a moron, either way he should go back to being an anonymous coward on slashdot. The rest of the non-developers you listed have each made a net positive contribution to discussions on this list. So an outright ban on non-developer traffic seems to me a bit harsh. > For comparison, the top posters amoung the developers: > > 61 yes: Joseph Carter *COUGH* *COUGH* *COUGH* Knghtbrd is a likeable enough guy, but man, does he ever have a staggering penchant for yammering. I mean, consider the above in addition to his highly visible and vocal presence on the Debian IRC channel(s). > 36 yes: Wichert Akkerman Good to see. Thanks, Wichert, for not being an "invisible" leader. > 24 yes: Branden Robinson I myself am in the top ten. Hmm, perhaps I should show more restraint. Of course, several of my mails were, I think, ascerbic one-liners which eat up less real estate than long, rambling quasi-essays. > Well I don't know what conclusion to draw from all this. :-) If the problem > is that we get lots of clueless posts from lots of different people, closing > the list off might be the right solution. If on the other hand, we're > getting lots of clueless posts from only a few people, perhaps those people > should be taken aside and spoken too. Dare I suggest moderation? Of course, that's impossible because no one would volunteer to do it. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Never underestimate the power of human Debian GNU/Linux | stupidity. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Robert Heinlein cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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