On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Digimer wrote: > That was hardly called for. If you find a post off topic or > uninteresting, just delete it. Either no one will reply or, if there is > interest in the question, others will and the question will be decided > to have value. wrong Seemingly you feel it is proper to burden tens of thousands of other people for personal pleasure ... others here display such an anti-social attitude as well The CentOS team, of which I am a part, are stewards of the resource that CentOS has grown into. I spoke publicly quite intentionally, after prior private request on other OT matter he persisted in raising, with a hope in sensitizing a serial off topic poster, from repeating such improper behaviour I won't 'suffer in silence' while people with muddy boots stomp around on the white carpet of my living room. If they won't respond to a private request, they get called out publicly We do not hesitate to kick spammers off from posting rights [and listen to the list members rant and ring the spam with poorly trimmed reposts for days afterward]. Frankly sustained OT content or trolling are spam at a lower data rate. I do not favor silent censorship, but we who value the list as a resource need to protect the asset somehow. Thus my post A fair reading of a month's archive and the seemingly infinite run-away threds readily shows the problem. The mail list is turning into the cesspool that main #centos IRC became when it was opened to OT and trolling. We need to do more than we have, all of us, who care about the project Feel free to review the initial poster's history on this list, and contribution, vs leaching ratio. I won't miss him a bit, and frankly the list will likely not be poorer for his absence either If you feel me wrong, feel free to start your own project and lists and prove me wrong -- Russ herrold