On Thu, 23 Oct 97 10:27 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: >From: Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> rules don't work very well, because you have no punishment, if someone >> breaks the rules. > >OK. Let me restate the problem. > >I want guidelines for: > > 1. Digesting an individual's postings. > 2. Placing an individual on moderation. > 3. Entirely blocking an individual from the mailing lists. > >We should consider the cases of people who violate rules of discourse, people >who rave endlessly, and people who are either clueless or crazy.
In other words Bruce needs a way to justify stifiling people that endanger his complete domination of the Debian project. I can see no other reason for this policy as the very *RARE* times their is any noise on the mailing lists it has been about that.

