On Mon, 23 May 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote:
This seems to me to be an unnecessarily agressive response to what appeared to me a rational question from Les Mikesell.
But I don't think the fact that a service is free entitles its proponents to be rude to those using it.
You must be new to this mailing list :)
no -- this post was intentional on my part as part of a new approach to this mailing list's 'poisonous people' [1] ... I am going to try: stop ignoring public misbehaviour, and rather point it out expressly (that is: 'shame' rather than 'shun')
Sort of like St. Patrick driving the Celtic snake spirits out of Ireland
'Banishment' either by way of unsubscription, or moderation cannot work -- a troll will just subscribe another sock puppet
Well-known trolls who find their entertainment during the workday sowing discontent here, with the techniques of 'Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation' [2] and otherwise, will be invited by me to put up or shut up
We'll see how (and if) this works -- it formerly worked well in the IRC channel where we could use a LART; dunno that it will work here
-- Russ herrold
[1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 [2] Google knows ... This enumeration seems to be of unknown authorship, but 'rings true' for much seen here