On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Allen Bolderoff wrote:
>
> > I say moderate. this way only one person needs to put up with the
> > crap.
>
> Yea, let's get a mandrake kiss ass corporate employee to censor out
> stuff so you won't find out how crappy this 7.1 release really is.
>
> That way the stock price will dictate what you can and can't post to the
> list.
>
> Good move. So I was pissed when I wrote my little rant, have you ever
> thrown your keyboard and mouse across the room? Yes, I have a bad
> attitude towards lame geeky user interfaces, but that's just me.
>
> I think they need to hear loud and clear that when they put out releases
> or call things "stable" that arn't, they will cause people great
> frustration, including damage to anything close by :)
>
> I don't want to cause this list to be censored, please don't even
> consider it. Just take the responsibility of setting your filtering on
> your mailer, or even better, write a nasty message to your mailer
> developer and ask why they don't have a way to simply "right click" on a
> message and say "block this thread of messages" so you don't have to
> miss out on all my messages, sometimes I help people (really I do).
>
> This reminds me of when people ask the government to be mommy and censor
> the net for them. (there goes that nasty attitude again, I better shut
> up)
Yes 7.1 has a lot of problems. I've handled around 30-40 installations + 10-12
from when it was in cooker. The problem is your ranting choice of fourm. This
is an expert list. It's supposed to only contain messages asking for answers to
technical questions or answers to those questions--and on an expert level.
Rants like this are best in Slashdot, usenet or other such forms. I say censor
flamebait postings. This list has reached a point where one person comes in and
flames vi or KDE or whatever, or asks such an incrediably dumb question that
the list balloons up to 150 messages all on a foolish religious topic.
Uncensored forums are for slashdot, fourms.mandrakesoft.com and the like. They
have thier place and are important for the computing ecosystem, but being
verbally abusive to people whom are offering their help for free is a waste of
*expert* time. Posts like this are like going to a programmer's convention and
yelling at the top of your lungs the benefits of growing crops organically
instead of chemically. They simply don't belong.
so how bout it mandrake, will you PLEASE start filtering out total flamebait
posts that have no relevance to the list?
--
-David Talbot
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So long as the government has the power to invade our lives, rummage through
our records, and take what it wants from our income, we will have only as
much freedom and take-home pay as the politicians condescend to let us have.
-Harry Browne Libertarian Canidate for President (www.HarryBrowne2000.org)
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