[CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

Mon May 23 16:36:19 UTC 2011
Chris Geldenhuis <chris.gelden at iafrica.com>

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
>
> -- 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
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Hi Russ,

Thanks for the link, most enlightening and I wish you every success in 
your efforts to improve the SNR.

ChrisG