Ian Clarke wrote: > Look, this is indeed getting silly, so perhaps we can relax, extinguish
> the flames, and find some common ground. > > Twice in the past a Freenet mailing list has been rendered useless > through off-topic posts. The first time was the Chat mailing list > several years ago which succumbed to flamewars over silly issues I don't > even remember any more. This was an annoyance but not really a serious > problem for the project. The second was the devl mailing list where > serious discussion of immediate issues was drowned out by off-topic > posts forcing the core Freenet developers to conduct most discussion on > IRC. Since IRC is much more difficult for people to track, this > resulted in significant and unnecessary opacity in the development > process of Freenet which hurt everyone. It took years for these > important discussions to return to devl. Before my time on freenet, but fair enough. > I admit that I might sometimes overreact to offtopic posts, but it is in > an effort to avoid a repetition of this unfortunate situation. If, by > making an example of one or two people, I can force people to think > twice as to whether those subscribed to devl want to read their posts, > then it will be more than worth-while. Its a dirty job, but someone has > to do it. I think you would get a much greater effect by setting a good example you'r self and politly ask people who post off topic to use the relevant lists, than you get with the aproch you use now. You can't get away from the fact that you have poted off topic in the past, and that makes it hard to take you'r criticism seriously. > Ian. Have fun! -- Sonax [EMAIL PROTECTED],3QJ0O-4iz8qT7c-~NFdo5g/SonaxFlog// [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Free, ultra-private instant messaging with Hush Messenger https://www.hushmail.com/services.php?subloc=messenger&l=434 Promote security and make money with the Hushmail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliate&l=427 _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general
