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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi Russ,
Thanks for the link, most enlightening and I wish you every success in your efforts to improve the SNR. ChrisG _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
