In fact, when a topic degrades to this level on the list go yell about it on IRC. Email is the worst possible form of communication for this, its optimized for big, detached speeches. At least IRC is more like a real time conversation and the five people arguing won't scare off the hundred other subscribed to this list.
irc://irc.perl.org/#perl-qa -- <Andy> When it gets to the Shlomi level of "I don't like this, I'm going to fork it!" it's time to back off.