Joey Hess wrote: > Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, > > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read > our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of > offtopic posts there.
I would like to help in whatever way I can to stop these OT posts. I have previously complained about it. But the OT posters never seem to listen. There were only a bunch in the beginning, of late the number of OT posters is also increasing. Now that the complaint is coming from a DD, I hope that some action/policy will be laid out... Greg Folkert (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/05/msg01282.html) even made a mockery of people complaining about OT posts. That is just sad. What makes this whole issue difficult is that these people hijack threads and make them OT. While I may be interested in the original thread, it becomes unreadable in the due course. Moreover, the OT posters are pretty knowledgeable about Debian (atleast they know a lot more than myself). So I cannot even killfile them since then I would not benefit from their non-OT posts. > I've in the past threatened to leave -user > entirely, and I have in fact moved a lot of my attention to providing > support on forums.debian.net[4], but I would prefer that Debian > articulate a policy of not tolerating this kind of behavior. > It's so sad that these OT posters are driving away people like you. I have always enjoyed (learned a lot from) your posts on this mailing list. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]