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