On May 23, 2011, at 7:50 AM, R P Herrold wrote:
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
---- - Timothy Murphy has been on the list a fairly long time
- Gordon Messmer is hardly someone I would ever accuse of being a troll but it's clear you have an agenda that permits you to only see black and white
- the link you provided emphasized that the way to protect your open source project is 'Politeness, respect, trust, and humility.' Perhaps you should review the link that you provided.
Craig