I agree that we are all adults so let us stop the stupid fighting! Kevin email: kjsisco at rcn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 6:49 AM Subject: the value of silence > I share the distress Jes has expressed, but do not endorse his > call for Kirk to intervene. Instead I endorse the appeal Shaun > has made to ignore the fellow. I would add to that the > recommendation to ignore the entire thread. Here is my thinking > on it: > > We are (or ought to be) a community of adults capable of solving > group problems in a group way. Kirk's role as "moderator" is a > technical one only. He maintains the subscription list, trouble > shoots problems in list distribution, and so on, plus of course > his authoritative inputs on technical matters, particularly > speakup issues. But he is not our parent or our camp counselor > who will step in and fix things for us when we cannot fix them > ourselves. I am sure Kirk is as pissed off as any of us with this > thread, and he has taken the route that we should all take: > absolute silence. > > I have modified my procmail rules for two reasons, and include > the revision below. One reason is that my original posting failed > to intercept messages from kevin, so that has been changed so it > now works. The other reason is that it is no longer just kevin's > postings that are the problem, as Jes as pointed out, but the > entire banter they have spawned among the rest of us, who seem to > keep trying to find a handle on this bowl of porridge. So I > added a rule to detect and deep six all mail with the string > "***SPAM***" on the subject line. I intend to enjoy a relatively > peaceful Sunday with only the useful and interesting stuff > reaching me from now on. I am an old man and do not have the > time to wade through the crap searching for something to think > about. > > Here is my revision: > > :0 c > * ^Subject: .*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\* > | play /usr/local/etc/flush.wav > :0 A > $HOME/mail/spam > :0 c > * ^From: .*<kjsisco at rcn.com> > | play /usr/local/etc/flush.wav > :0 A > $HOME/mail/spam > > > Those of you not yet running Linux will not be able to use the > above procmail solution, sorry about that, so get a wiggle on and > move on up!!! > > Chuck > > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (1% of Full) > Get my public key from website, http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
