Great post, and excellent honeytrap: all the poisonous people flocked immediately to this thread and started debating it furiously.
Some points: - verbosity/spamminess *is* disruptive. It takes a lot of time to read, and invariably someone will respond, causing more posts. Worse, it causes sensible people to tune out entirely, meaning threads consist of little more than spammy bastards rehashing old arguments. "If you don't like it, don't read it" is not a solution. - Let's not tar all Australians with the same brush. Some of us are supportive of the license changes, and pulling our heads in and just mapping quietly. - A moderator for the key mailing lists would be a very sensible step. I have volunteered in the past. No one should have the right to post whatever and as much as they like with no accountability. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
