Although I'm pretty much a "lurker" on this list, I have been reading it
daily for 7 or 8 years and can't recall any instances of rudeness,
bullying, or other untoward behavior by anyone. There have been a couple of
instances of someone interjecting a political opinion which was either
silently ignored or promptly dismissed with an admonition that this was not
the place for such expression and that was the end of it. Did I miss an
incident that prompted this?


On Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 8:31 AM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 July 2021 07:44:53 Mark Wendt wrote:
>
> > And there are a lot of us who are pretty disgusted with the attitudes
> > of those on this list who feel that something like this is totally
> > necessary.
> >
> > Mark
>
> Put me down in that column. I am all for ignoring it, and this list going
> back to one of the most helpfull lists on the net.  This is destroying
> us.
>
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 6:37 AM Valerio Bellizzomi
> > <vale...@selnet.org>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I am disgusted by the reactions of detractors of the CoC which Jeff
> > > proposed, and by being attacked privately like an enemy for my own
> > > freely-shared opinions.
> > >
> > > That is why I am going to set digest mode on for the mailing list,
> > > so that I will read messages once every month and not be harassed
> > > every day by this useless anti-CoC endeavour, which is a distraction
> > > that diverts my time from useful work. So you know that whatever you
> > > post it will be read at end of the month and not immediately.
> > >
> > > Taking now to private mail messages off-list: I have set a filter
> > > for marking as spam everything from this list with off-list
> > > destination to my private address, exception for the list admins.
> > > Those who insist writing off-list to this private address will be
> > > reported to their respective mail providers, again exception for the
> > > list admins.
> > >
> > >
> > > Stay well and God be with you.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > > From: Bruce Layne <linux...@thinkingdevices.com>
> > > To: Valerio Bellizzomi <vale...@selnet.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users - OFF LIST] Code of Conduct
> > > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:03:31 -0400
> > > Mailer: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
> > >  Thunderbird/78.11.0
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/12/21 9:21 PM, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> > > LinuxCNC is a rare case in such, a blinkenlight in the darkness.
> > > See if that endures after the mess.
> > >
> > > That sounds a bit like an arsonist taking credit for a fire.  The
> > > mess was caused by the Code of Conduct being forced on the
> > > community, and now it's threatening to destroy the community.
> > >
> > > From my perspective, it sounds like, "LinuxCNC has never needed a
> > > Code of Conduct, but we're going to force you to have one, and if
> > > you resist, we'll destroy LinuxCNC.  You can either give in to our
> > > demands and exploit LinuxCNC as a vehicle to extend our political
> > > beliefs, or we'll destroy LinuxCNC and you'll have nothing."
> > >
> > > The sad part is, the second law of thermodynamics implies that it's
> > > easier to destroy rather than create.  There are plenty of recent
> > > examples of a few politically motivated individuals destroying
> > > projects, doxing people and getting them fired, bullying
> > > corporations into making political statements, etc.  It's called
> > > cancel culture and it's feared with good reason.  It took a lot of
> > > work to build Rome but it was comparatively a simple and easy thing
> > > for the Visigoths to destroy it.
> > >
> > > As an engineer, I see myself as a builder - someone who is working
> > > to reverse entropy to create, and not a modern day Visigoth using
> > > entropy to destroy what others have created.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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