On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote:
I am unaware of ever making those comments !
Check your file copy of your email to me of 25 Aug. I won't engage in a battle of semantics with an anonymous troll
To all:
As a matter of logistics, we are putting some new permissions in place to permit the stewards of the CentOS resources to quell the flood of off topic matter. The protocol will probably be first a private word to repeated instigator of noise off the mailing list, and then a silent moderation of that person; there is also the capacity to close down further posts on a subject line in Mailman, and we may use that as well
I considered and proposed a formal and public nomination and voting system but this was probably geeky technical overkill. Also it would have required material coding to get up and running, to address what is, in the end, simply sustained bad behaviour by a few serial offenders. We'll be trying what in already in Mailman first
I'm not happy about this moderation, but as one of the other stewards said:
some of these conversations are really getting out of hand, the level of OT isnt even funny anymore. People seem to have descended into a social chatter list attitude rather than something that is topical and meant to be a collection of people focused on a specific interest.
I'm all for putting a mod flag on these guys, specially for the guys who have been on the list for a while
and I am much more unhappy with the hijacking of the list for personal entertainment and trolling sport
Thank you for bearing with us as we steer the list back to addressing CentOS usage specific matter
-- Russ herrold