Raj Mathur wrote:
> And sorry for flying off the handle.  Not making any excuses --
> unbelievably off-topic stuff on technical mailing lists like ghazals
> and Indian politics and Hindutva and girls dying of cancer in Scotland
> sets me off, and I'll probably do exactly the same thing next time :)

I suggest that 'we' put any erring list members on moderation queue.

Infact I have assigned an extremely low score for this particular author in
my newsreader. IMHO most of the questions posed by this author belong to
the category of Home Work questions.
Some on the list have reacted to Raj's outbursts.
Here is what they should read.
Quoting from the http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
<Quote>
Community standards do not maintain themselves: They're maintained by people
actively applying them, visibly, in public. Don't whine that all criticism
should have been conveyed via private mail: That's not how it works. Nor is
it useful to insist you've been personally insulted when someone comments
that one of your claims was wrong, or that his views differ. Those are
loser attitudes.
There have been hacker forums where, out of some misguided sense of
hyper-courtesy, participants are banned from posting any fault-finding with
another's posts, and told ?Don't say anything if you're unwilling to help
the user.? The resulting departure of clueful participants to elsewhere
causes them to descend into meaningless babble and become useless as
technical forums.
</Quote>
-Tarun
-- 
The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds
universes.


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