Chris, This list is open to the public but it isn't a forum for free speech on any topic, it's a forum for discussing Struts issues, and I expect some people (myself included) view non-Struts based email in a similar light to spam. I'm sure the moderators wouldn't leave people who post about selling ipods and viagra on the list and just ignore them, and I am advocating we take a similar line with consistent off topic posters (maybe with a warning after the first two or three consecutive OT posts).
I'm also not entirely sure of your view because your email appears to contradict itself. You start off by saying I should ignore what I don't like, then you sound like you're trying to tell me to respect your view of what's "inappropriate content" when posting to the list. I understand that I may get a bad reputation from my posts, but I very much doubt the whole of the Struts project will be labelled as unpleasant just for removing people who don't stick to the rules of the list (see the the section titled "Join the lists that are appropriate for your discussion." under guidelines at http://struts.apache.org/mail.html) If you don't like what I'm saying please feel free to ignore it, but in the same light, if you respond to my posts with a viewpoint I don't agree with, don't be surprised if I put my point of view forward in a way which may not meet your personal appropriate content standards. Al. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 May 2007 15:01 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: jar files -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Al, Al Sutton wrote: > I'm just a bit worried about a snowball effect where people start > seeing OT posts as acceptable and the number slowly grow as more > people make them to the stage where the signal to noise ration becomes > painful because, as we've seen, the original posters rarely start with OT in their subject. That's why I'm suggesting that you ignore them. > As for democracy, what's that then?, and has it ever applied to > mailing lists? :). Stifling a voice because you don't like what it's saying is no good. That's a far worse snowball than OT posts. I'm sure the moderators would agree. This is a public forum. Kindly direct inappropriate content to the right place (or at least away from here). We certainly don't want to get the reputation of being a bunch of jerks. If we do, then Struts will get a bad name as having a belligerent community and people will stop using it. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVEkn9CaO5/Lv0PARApNeAKC/udwxes9YLftbhphDMjE2MaAePQCeOx7c WqslAgrETL36fQc965wZsFQ= =Gftb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
