On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 15:17 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Manokaran K <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I might be wrong but of late I get a feeling that the number of > users > > policing the list is more than the number actually discussing > anything! Is > > the theory that the former is stifling the latter true or just a > post hoc > > fallacy? > > > > I am not sure what you mean. But if you are talking about the > mails that ask people to follow mailing list guidelines, then I feel > that it is necessary. As all of us see, despite there being lots of > mails asking people to follow guidelines, a lot of people violate > them. Moreover, it is not policing. It is just that a member is > guiding a fellow member towards a better etiquette. And there is > nothing wrong in doing that. Thanks
in fact it is highly insulting and derogatory to use a term like 'policing' when some people try to enforce standards. Please appreciate that those people are not jobless - they take the time and effort to educate people on the list (and have to keep stomaching insults also). -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
