On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 16.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Felipe Contreras: >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Am 16.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Felipe Contreras: >>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies <fredbezies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> I'm an old archlinux user (first installation back in december 2008), >>>>> and for a long time, I was very satisfied with arch-general. But some >>>>> people - can we define them as bottom holes ? - are rotting this >>>>> mailing list, and the community too. >>>> >>>> Do what the Linux kernel does: ignore the mails. Most mail clients >>>> have an option to mute a thread. >>> >>> I prefer the more pragmatic approach: Simply ban some people from the >>> list to make it quiet again. >> >> That's not more pragmatic, > > It is. Person X is annoying everyone, so person X can't post any longer. > >> that's more authoritarian, but whatever >> floats your boat; if you want to squash dissidence, that's certainly >> the way. > > I want to squash the noise that has turned this list from a helpful and > nice place to discuss with developers and users into the place it has > been the last few days. That's authoritarian. -- Felipe Contreras
