On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:10:39PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: > > * Hall monitors are allowed to send 'thread closure' posts to > > aggressive or problematic mailing list threads to curtail issues before ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is nonsense. The problematic could be individual e-mails, but it's not reason to stop the whole discussion. If you see an aggressive e-mail then ask author of the e-mail to be more polite, but never try to control whole discussion. > > they become serious enough to warrant an official warning. When this is > > done the subject line of the message will be prefixed with > > [HALL-MONITORED] and a link to this wiki page is included in the message. > > This vague paragraph can be abused to justify censoring pretty much > everything. > > Thank you for pointing out yet another undemocratic policy passed by one of +1 The Hall Monitor Policy is cancer. All sane e-mail clients support "delete e-mail" and "delete thread" functions. It's better to have 1000 useless e-mails in INBOX than 1 HALL-MONITORED e-mail. Yes, freedom is expensive... Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel