On 18-May-07, 15:41 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, > > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read > our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of > offtopic posts there. I've in the past threatened to leave -user > entirely, and I have in fact moved a lot of my attention to providing > support on forums.debian.net[4], but I would prefer that Debian > articulate a policy of not tolerating this kind of behavior. > > Out of 2861 posts to -user this May, 407 (one in seven) have been labeled > OT.[1][2] Their content has included jems like these. Anyone who has spent a > while on the internet can probably fill in the surrounding mega-threads[5] > from these excerpts. > > [examples deleted]
Ban them all. None of that crap belongs on a Debian technical list. No amount of technical input can compensate for the hostility and stupidity that those kind of posts promote. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]