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Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user



On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:27 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:42:48PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > I guess you'd rather see the OT posters go away. There are about 30 of
> > us. Though, I "got the hint" with Neil Sumner reporting me to the DPL,
> > after I told him to STFU, in worse words than that.
> 
> > Though he had been including me in *EVERY* correspondence, with "gee you
> > are MUCH better at handling conversation than Greg Folkert. I sure hope
> > everyone isn't like him." After a few messages like that, coming to me
> > provately, I basically kept telling him to stop sending me private
> > mail... which he didn't. I exploded on him publicly. My bad, I
> > apologized and moved on.
> 
> Congratulations on managing, in 6 short paragraphs, to take a thread about
> off-topic postings and divert it to something unrelated.

Thanks, I'll shut up now. I sent a priv-message to him. Never see it
again.

> > I believe that since OT has become a BIG problem, self-moderation or
> > "thinking/re-reading" before *you the sender* send is a much better
> > option than banning people.
> 
> The listmasters only have control over one of these solutions.
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