Re: abandoning the rules of discourse
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 97 10:27 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> >OK. Let me restate the problem.
> >
> >I want guidelines for:
> >
> > 1. Digesting an individual's postings.
> > 2. Placing an individual on moderation.
> > 3. Entirely blocking an individual from the mailing lists.
> >
> >We should consider the cases of people who violate rules of discourse, people
> >who rave endlessly, and people who are either clueless or crazy.
>
> In other words Bruce needs a way to justify stifiling people that endanger his
> complete domination of the Debian project.
>
> I can see no other reason for this policy as the very *RARE* times their is any
> noise on the mailing lists it has been about that.
Dave, you have an funny tendency to be completely wrong and very right at
the same time.
I agree that indeed only very, very occasionally the mailinglists get
disturbed in a way that ought to call for measures. So rarely in fact that
all too much emphasis on possible measures might be a bigger disturbance
to the lists than the occasional nutter's appearance.
The last time there was an issue, I actually enjoyed the fun to read
digests and I frankly cannot imagine a situation where stronger action is
needed ( except maybe for people posting their kernels - I wouldn't want a
digest of that. )
For the rest I hope that Bruce continues his benign dictatorship in the
very fine manner that he has been doing it ( Yes Dave, I realize that I am
braindead ) without any formalized enforcement that neither he nor Debian
needs as far as I can see.
Cheers,
Joost
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