On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 97 10:27 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote: > > >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.
Dave, you have an funny tendency to be completely wrong and very right at the same time. I agree that indeed only very, very occasionally the mailinglists get disturbed in a way that ought to call for measures. So rarely in fact that all too much emphasis on possible measures might be a bigger disturbance to the lists than the occasional nutter's appearance. The last time there was an issue, I actually enjoyed the fun to read digests and I frankly cannot imagine a situation where stronger action is needed ( except maybe for people posting their kernels - I wouldn't want a digest of that. ) For the rest I hope that Bruce continues his benign dictatorship in the very fine manner that he has been doing it ( Yes Dave, I realize that I am braindead ) without any formalized enforcement that neither he nor Debian needs as far as I can see. Cheers, Joost
