Am 16.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Felipe Contreras: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Bächler <tho...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> Am 16.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Felipe Contreras: >>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies <fredbez...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I'm an old archlinux user (first installation back in december 2008), >>>> and for a long time, I was very satisfied with arch-general. But some >>>> people - can we define them as bottom holes ? - are rotting this >>>> mailing list, and the community too. >>> >>> Do what the Linux kernel does: ignore the mails. Most mail clients >>> have an option to mute a thread. >> >> I prefer the more pragmatic approach: Simply ban some people from the >> list to make it quiet again. > > That's not more pragmatic,
It is. Person X is annoying everyone, so person X can't post any longer. > that's more authoritarian, but whatever > floats your boat; if you want to squash dissidence, that's certainly > the way. I want to squash the noise that has turned this list from a helpful and nice place to discuss with developers and users into the place it has been the last few days.
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