Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-25 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 08:43 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 16:41:49 PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, > > > > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs wh

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread cga2000
archives, as of a few minutes ago: > - total messages today (5/22): 69 > - total re: "rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user" 15 (22%) > - total otherwise marked OT or offtopic: 2 (3%) > - other (on-topic) messages: 52 (75%) > > Of the on-topic messa

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:25 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > a

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Freddy Freeloader
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:49 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:59:01 -0400 > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday 21 May 2007, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 > > > "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > This

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:41 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, > > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read > our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of > o

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, > ridiculing (often wittil

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
topic discussions. At this point this meta-topic "rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user" seems to be dominating list traffic. From the archives, as of a few minutes ago: - total messages today (5/22): 69 - total re: "rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-us

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Mike Bird
On Monday 21 May 2007 22:48, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote to Marco: > Seriously, searching the list archives for your email reveals > that aside from pointing out to someone who posted to this > list in Italian that this is an English-only list, pretty > much every single message you have posted has be

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 06:58:19 +0200 "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 10:46:09 AM -0400, Celejar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I'll point out that the OT thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a > > response to a sig that I felt attacked religion unfairly. Many >

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:59:01 -0400 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2007, Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 > > "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really > > > h

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:15:56PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:47:38 +0200 > David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > [...] > > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > > threa

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread pedxing
On May 22, 7:40 am, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I fail to understand is what difference does it make if text is > above or below a sig delimiter? Either it is offensive or it is not. I > and others have been blasted for supposedly offensive remarks. However, > if you re

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:33:53 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I fail to understand is what difference does it make if text is > above or below a sig delimiter? It doesn't. > Either it is offensive or it is not. What is offensive or isn't is entirely up to the reader.

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:58:19AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 10:46:09 AM -0400, Celejar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I'll point out that the OT thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a > > response to a sig that I felt attacked religion unfairly. Many > > people use qu

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:34:25AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:31:12PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > > > > No. Think about what you're saying. Sigs are a time honoured > > > practice, and if you don't like one, hit delete an

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, May 21, 2007 10:46:09 AM -0400, Celejar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'll point out that the OT thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a > response to a sig that I felt attacked religion unfairly. Many > people use quite provocative sigs, ridiculing (often wittily) > political or religious

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Gnu_Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >"M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Please avoid this kind of technical suggestions in this thread: > > >* it is still the same unacceptable "since you can buy ear plugs, I > > can yell whenever I want" attitude. See my previous messages > > I think it

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:31:12PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, >

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:31:12 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > attacked religion unfairly. Many p

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:47:38 +0200 David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > a

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > [...] > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, > ridiculing (often

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:53:44AM -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >So, let me see if I understand this. The things for which Michelle, > >Ron, Michael, Johannes, Judd, Florian and I were criticized, because > >they were supposedly offensive, would be OK as long as t

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: So, let me see if I understand this. The things for which Michelle, Ron, Michael, Johannes, Judd, Florian and I were criticized, because they were supposedly offensive, would be OK as long as they were in a sig? If they also honored the four-line sig netiquette, y

[OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:31:12PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quit

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:51:30AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:50:27PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:44:10PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be > >

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, > ridiculing (often wittily) political or religio

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:51:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > > > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum > > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers > > and for some contributors (yes, answering que

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 21 May 2007, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 > "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really > > hope they put a stop to this, this time. > > As people have pointed out; this is exactly the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really > hope they put a stop to this, this time. As people have pointed out; this is exactly the issue. There *are no* moderators! d-u is (currently)

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 19 May 2007 08:44:09 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:11:37PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > > However, I do think it would be good to add language to the description > > of the mailing list that suggests that people take off-topic > > conv

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers > and for some contributors (yes, answering questions is also a way of > contributing, so you - the DDs - don't have

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:50:27PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:44:10PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be > > enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we try to > > self-

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/21/2007 01:55 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:19:12AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that an entire separate list is being considered, the off-top

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread steef
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: <.> As a side note I must say that I have been a member of a volunteer organization for 11 years and I have seen a bit of the dynamic involved in such a group. The best "contributors" were mostly the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they > need to be *interspersed* with the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, May 21, 2007 09:55:22 AM +0300, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > By forum I meant whole Debian, not this list (should have put some > quotes around). > > > Of course. How can you ask such a ridiculous question? Please think a > > bit more before posting. First of all, going by

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:19:12AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that > > > an entire separate list is being considered, the off-topic diversion > > > is already beyo

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:59:15PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:43:45PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Agreed. It may be a good idea to add to the mailing lists code of > > conduct a couple of extra lines: > > > > A lot of questions asked on debian-user

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:44:10PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be > enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we try to > self-regulate. Eg: "Yoh WhatsYourName, this topic, while interesting in > a general s

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, May 20, 2007 22:15:34 PM +0300, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that > > an entire separate list is being considered, the off-topic diversion > > is

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > >> discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > >> "off-topic" messages. For

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:58:37PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and > > > be enumerated so that it could be referred to directly

[OT] Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:34:55PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:34:50PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > This type of guideline means a whole heck of a lot more than large > > sweeping corrections. Plus, we do need someone to thwack the > > responder(s) from time

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:34:50PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > This type of guideline means a whole heck of a lot more than large > sweeping corrections. Plus, we do need someone to thwack the > responder(s) from time to time. Many could do this, specifically and > privately over private e-mail.

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they need to be *in

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:58:37PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be > > enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we try to > > self-regulate. Eg: "Yoh WhatsYourNa

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:51:08AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > This particular problem is solved for the most part by a policy > > change that says non-Debian topics are inappropriate. This opens > > the door to various actions starting with "thi

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/20/2007 01:44 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [...] I propose we add a clause to the code of conduct to address the OT issue. This half of the problem is generally followed but it should be part of policy. The following wording is a starting point for discussion: Discussions whic

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they > need to be *interspersed* with the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:43:45PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Agreed. It may be a good idea to add to the mailing lists code of > conduct a couple of extra lines: > > A lot of questions asked on debian-user and debian-devel are asked > regularly. Please consider searching using an Inter

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:51:08AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > This particular problem is solved for the most part by a policy change > that says non-Debian topics are inappropriate. This opens the door to > various actions starting with "this is not appropriate, please stop" in > the event that f

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-May-07, 15:41 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, > > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read > our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetati

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:50:31PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > Did it ever occur to you that there is a reason for "ba

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:43:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > I think you missed Amy's point. It's great that there are > technical solutions to the OT problem. However, if we take that as > license to continue posting messages that are far, far removed from > the world of Debian, we are going

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 18.05.07 23:59, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Between those who post OT threads, and those who whine about the OT > threads, it's hard to say what's more annoying. I understand those tho whine. I don't understand those who are OT. > PS, I'm pretty excited about the Ottawa Senators/Buffalo Sabres ga

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Klein Moebius
* Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-20 01:04:15 -0400]: > Hoping for a resolution without bloodshed, Hear,here. Regards, Klein. -- They also surf who only stand on waves -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
s. keeling wrote: M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Personally, I had already decided that, from now on, any off topic rambling by the people we have already mentioned will cause an immediate reply, both on the list and to the moderators, requesting, with links to this thread, that they ar

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/18, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of offtopic posts there

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Chris Lale
Mumia W.. wrote: [...] > I think that it's best to state a policy against off-topic posts, but > any enforcement is not a good idea. > [...] This sounds very sensible. Start at the root of the problem and have a stated policy so that everyone knows where they are. Without a policy, there will alw

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/19/2007 10:16 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [...] OK. Let's recap: - Amy asked: "If somebody's current provider provides only POP, should they be forced to switch to another provider just for the privilege of being on this list?" - I pointed out that [...] Amy asked a rhetorical

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Amy Templeton
Hi all, I really, honestly think this thread has gone on quite long enough--it has degenerated into an argument over whether or not OT posters have taken the hint, and I really don't see that getting anywhere. So, to summarize what I think has been said so far: 1) Offtopic posts are out of contro

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:38:27 -0500, Gnu Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I think it a little strange that people are calling on the list > masters to monitor a list that is declared as non moderated, and has a > Usenet component. Just how exactly are you going to stop people from > posting from U

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/07 22:16, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] > I'm sorry if you feel I have been, as I most clearly have not been. Roberto, There comes a time when you've got to throw in the towel even if you believe that you've done nothing wrong. This is o

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:50:31PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > > > Did it ever occur to you that there is a reason for "bash Roberto > > > festivities"? Perhaps your behavior

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:40:08PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > Then you missed the overall point, the human point, of

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:40:08PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > > > Then you missed the overall point, the human point, of the matter. > > > IMAP may be better, but for many p

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:40:08PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:43:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > > > On 2007-05-19, Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:26:59AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > If you want to be off topic yet marginally related to Debian, use > > -curiosa. If it has nothing to do with Debian at all, pick from > > the multitude of fora where it would be on t

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:59 -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > Come, lets here a solution, I've discussed some solutions, how about > > you? > > If folks were reasonable about it, they'd simply "take it off list" > on their own, as is

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread CaT
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:05:10PM -0500, Gnu_Raiz wrote: > I personally think that everyone has a right to post, and who am I to tell > someone else not to exercise their right to freedom of speech. I You know... we should just merge every mailing list on the net into one list and see just how

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 09:17 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Saturday 19 May 2007 08:02, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really > > > hope they put a stop to this, this time. > > > >

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > We had a problem on the Libranet list where a number of us got into > > some serious and deep discussions about religion and politics. Not > > one person was being disrespectful or

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
> vs. POP was yours and yours alone and was a technical point that was in > response to a larger issue. > Actually, Amy Templeton asked whether someone would have to switch to IMAP in order to enjoy those same benefits. In any case, welcome to the "bash Roberto festivities."

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:32 PM Subject: Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:55:34 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Ple

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread CaT
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > > There exists a gentoo-user mailing list. If a post to debian-user > > would be exactly as on-topic if posted to gentoo-user, then it is > > offtopic on *both* lists, and belongs on neither.

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
eir systems and deal with downloading headers first, then deleting, or using other work arounds. The issue of IMAP vs. POP was yours and yours alone and was a technical point that was in response to a larger issue. > efficient retrieval of POP mail [WAS: Re: rampant offtopic and >

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:34:29AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:15:01PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 14:34:50 PM -0400, Greg Folkert > > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > > That changes many t

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread s. keeling
Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:15:01PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 14:34:50 PM -0400, Greg Folkert > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > That changes many thing. First off BANNING is not the answer. It > > > will be seen a a "bad

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
e mail clients, then POP > > is perfectly fine. > > I think you missed Amy's point. It's great that there are No, you *clearly* missed my point. I was specifically addressing the technical aspects of IMAP vs POP from a user point of view. That is why I changed the subject

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Mike Bird
On Saturday 19 May 2007 16:05, Gnu_Raiz wrote: > I think it's a valid solution just because it does not fit into your > solution doesn't mean it's not a valid solution. Like I mentioned before > censorship is not the answer, why not just killfile the people you > dislike, and go on about your duti

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-19, Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:51:51PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: >>=20 >> If somebody's current provider provides only >> POP, should they be forced to switch to another provider just for >> the privilege of being on this list? >>=20 >

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread s. keeling
M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Personally, I had already decided that, from now on, any off topic > rambling by the people we have already mentioned will cause an > immediate reply, both on the list and to the moderators, requesting, > with links to this thread, that they are banned from

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 5/19/07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:19:31PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > M. Fioretti wrote: > > >No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: > > > > > >* everybody with any metered connection

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread s. keeling
Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 19 May 2007 08:02, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > > This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really > > hope they put a stop to this, this time. > > Excellent reasoning and presentation Marco. I hope the listmasters > will finally fix

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Gnu_Raiz
>"M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please avoid this kind of technical suggestions in this thread: >* it is still the same unacceptable "since you can buy ear plugs, I > can yell whenever I want" attitude. See my previous messages I think it's a valid solution just because it does not fi

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Gnu_Raiz
I think it a little strange that people are calling on the list masters to monitor a list that is declared as non moderated, and has a Usenet component. Just how exactly are you going to stop people from posting from Usenet? Some people have listed various names, and addresses for inclusion in

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > We had a problem on the Libranet list where a number of us got into some > serious and deep discussions about religion and politics. Not one > person was being disrespectful or calling names, but there were a few > people that ne

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:15:01PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 14:34:50 PM -0400, Greg Folkert > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > That changes many thing. First off BANNING is not the answer. It > > will be seen a a "bad thing" by the blogosphere and some journalists > > that

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey Hess wrote: > >I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become >nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read >our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of >offtopic posts there. I've in the past threatened to leave -user >entire

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:55:34 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Please avoid this kind of technical suggestions in this thread: > > > >* it is still the same unacceptable "since you can buy ear plugs, I > > can yell whenever I want" attitude. See my previous messages > > >

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Klein Moebius
* Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-19 17:55:34 -0400]: > Enough already, or does somebody have to mention Nazis? Nazis. There, I did it... Regards, Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

efficient retrieval of POP mail [WAS: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:51:51PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > > If somebody's current provider provides only > POP, should they be forced to switch to another provider just for > the privilege of being on this list? > IMAP is better by many measures. However, if you do not require access to

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:42:11PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > > * you just gave Roberto a hook to rerun his trite and disgusting talks > about "if you had as much competence and spare time as me, **you** > could waste it in so many ways to not see **my** behavioral problems" > Don't feed th

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:02:01PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 10:28:19 AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I guess the question is where to draw and then who draws that line. > > Roberto, > > please don't try to go all philosophical on us acting

OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
M. Fioretti wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:19:31 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: * everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every time these characters rerun their show

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:33:41 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: > > * everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every > > time these characters rerun their show > > How do I pay real money? It doesn't cost me extra on my

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Amy Templeton
Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:19:31PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > M. Fioretti wrote: > > >No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: > > > > > >* everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money > > >every time these characters reru

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:19:31 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > M. Fioretti wrote: > >No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: > > > >* everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every time > > these characters rerun their show > > > It's called IMAP

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 15:12:51 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Not true. For example, I'm having trouble with Firefox > >crashing Asking here could help a great deal with that. > > Of course. But rambling for months about re

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:19:31PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > M. Fioretti wrote: > >No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: > > > >* everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every time > > these characters rerun their show > > > > > It's called IMAP - the bandwidt

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