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I've been watching this thread title and the related follow-ups (some with different titles) with some dismay, but I don't think at this time it is appropriate to moderate the list. Self-moderation has worked in the past, and I see no reason to change that for just a few messages that are undesired. This is the list for Asterisk business. While there may be some grey areas surrounding what is acceptable to post (repeatedly) for your company or services, there is CLEARLY no reason to be posting discussions about social, political, or economic issues on this forum. There are many other places for that, but this is not one of them. Refrain from cluttering the list with discussions of your opinions regarding issues other than those directly related to VoIP or Asterisk topics. Please exercise self-restraint and don't reply or follow up to threads that are not relevant to this discussion forum, even though you are feeling righteous rage at someone who has expressed an opinion with which you disagree or said something that is factually incorrect. While I believe it is not appropriate at this time to moderate the list, in the most extreme cases of off-topic digression it may be necessary to remove users who continually do not adhere to commonly acceptable posting topic standards. However, we're not there yet. I am less disappointed with threads that are business-oriented but yet are not relevant to Asterisk business issues directly, as often there are interested parties on these topics. But even those are only useful if they are not topics to the exclusion of more pertinent and related issues. Please seek out the appropriate forums for these discussions, and then perhaps just post a link if there is the thought that there is a similar audience interest on the asterisk-biz list. This will hopefully be the last reply to the list on this particular topic for another few years. JT --- John Todd email:[email protected] Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
