On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Warren, Eucke wrote:
... To suggest a "shaming" only makes the Centos community look bad as it would be done so without understanding the entire environment and situation.
Thank you for the restrained reply, Eucke
Wearing my '@centos.org' hat, let me add that I strongly concur to the effect that 'shaming' on a mailing list is probably not something to encourage; advising as to better practice, or better, simply staying still if one has nothing new to add are often fine responses to some posts.
We have a place to use social pressure toward education and growth as a sysadmin, in the ground rules of avoiding 'spoonfeeding' in the #centos IRC channel, and that's about all; we have not had inquiries there yet about 'baby mulching machines or atomic bombs' [1], but I suppose we would answer the centos 'on topic' part. We would send the off topic away, either to #centos-social (if it looked like we conld amuse that channel), or to a more appropirate venue for remaining off topic matter.
-- Russ herrold