Re: META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-31 Thread Roberto Sanchez
David Jardine wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:14:51PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: When freedom and tolerance seem to fail, repression always is an answer. Sound familiar? Be afraid, children, be very afraid. That last sentence certainly sounds pathetically familiar ;-) Yes. I believe Master Yoda

Re: META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-31 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:14:51PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > > When freedom and tolerance seem to fail, repression always is an > answer. Sound familiar? Be afraid, children, be very afraid. > That last sentence certainly sounds pathetically familiar ;-) -- David Jardine "Running Debian G

Re: META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:14:51PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:20:22 +0100, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So much easier to just ban abusing list members, after suitable warning. > > One could ask for no clearer demonstration of the animus that fuels the >

Re: META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-31 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:20:22 +0100, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So much easier to just ban abusing list members, after suitable warning. One could ask for no clearer demonstration of the animus that fuels the fervor of the so-called "Open" and "Free" (source, software, whatever) crow

META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:19:46AM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > I wonder if one could implement a kind of "p2p-killfile". A group of > people that trust another share a list of Msg-IDs. If one member kills a > mail, it is killed for the others - possibly eben whole threads. So much easier

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-30 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 29.12.2004, 14:35 -0500 schrieb Antonio Rodriguez: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. I wonder if one could implement a kind of "p2p-kill

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 15:26 -0500, Brendan wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 14:35, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: [snip] > You've got to be a socialist. ;-) Hey, let's throw even *more* gas on the fire! Woo Hoo! -- - Ron Johnson, J

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Brendan
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 14:35, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with some

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 02:35:41PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:35 am, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with s