On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:41:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read > our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of > offtopic posts there. I've in the past threatened to leave -user > entirely, and I have in fact moved a lot of my attention to providing > support on forums.debian.net[4], but I would prefer that Debian > articulate a policy of not tolerating this kind of behavior. Thanks for this. It's clear that a small group of people are incapable of self-regulation and are of the mindset that "this list is for debian users, and I'm a debian user, therefore I can post whatever I like to it." I had hoped that intelligent people could see that "people should learn to filter what they don't like" was not in any way an acceptable or scalable solution, and that a large number of these posts simply did not belong on a Debian mailing list. Unfortunately this concept seems to meet with incomprehension or in some cases outright abuse from certain of this small group. That's why I agree with you that there is nowhere left to go but to state a policy. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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