Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

[Jhair Tocancipa Triana <jhair.tocancipa@gmail.com>]

Joey Hess writes:

> I feel that an appropriate policy for -user would be that when offtopic
> threads exceed a few messages, the people posting to the thread should
> take it to private email. If offtopic threads get much larger than that,
> people who have posted large portions of the thread should be reminded
> to take it to private mail. If they refuse to do so they should lose
> their posting priveliges to the mailing list, either temporarily or
> permanantly. I think that this policy should be applied retroactively to
> at least the currently running OT threads unless the people posting to
> them promise to stop dominating -user by volume.

Thanks, I agree this would be a sane policy for debian-user. Hopefully
it gets implemented soon, or at least, the excessively vocal offtopic
posters learn to autoregulate themselves.

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--Jhair