---------------------
Christopher Dimech
General Administrator - Naiad Informatics - GNU Project (Geocomputation)
- Geophysical Simulation
- Geological Subsurface Mapping
- Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation
- Natural Resource Exploration and Production
- Free Software Advocacy
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 at 2:51 AM
> From: "David Malcolm via Gcc" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> To: "Ian Lance Taylor" <i...@google.com>
> Cc: "GCC Development" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: removing toxic emailers
>
> On Sun, 2021-04-18 at 09:10 -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> Sorry for prolonging this thread-of-doom; I'm loathe to reply to Eric
> because I worry that it will encourage him. I wrote a long rebuttal to
> his last email to me about his great insights into the minds of women
> but didn't send it in the hope of reducing the temperature of the
> conversation.
>
> That said...
>
> > Ian Lance Taylor via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>:
> > > This conversation has moved well off-topic for the GCC mailing lists.
> > >
> > > Some of the posts here do not follow the GNU Kind Communication
> > > Guidelines
> > > (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.en.html).
> > >
> > > I suggest that people who want to continue this thread take it off
> > > the
> > > GCC mailing list.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Ian
> >
> > Welcome to the consequences of abandoning "You shall judge by the code
> > alone."
> >
> > This is what it will be like, *forever*, until you reassert that norm.
>
> Or we could ignore the false dilemma that Eric is asserting, and
> instead moderate the list, or even just moderate those who have never
> contributed to GCC but persist in emailing the list.
>
> Personally, I've been moving all posts by Christopher Dimech to this
> list direct from my inbox to my archive without reading them for the
> last several days, and it's helped my mood considerably. He's been
> prolifically posting to the list recently, but in the 8 years I've been
> involved in gcc development I've never heard of him before this thing
> kicked off, and the stuff I've had the misfortune to see by him appears
> to me to be full of conspiracy theories and deranged raving. The clue
> might have been when he referred to us as "bitches".
> "Don't feed the trolls" might have worked once, but sometimes they
> start talking to each other, and it becomes difficult for a bystander
> to tell that everyone else is ignoring them, and it keeps threads like
> this one alive.
>
> I reject the idea that those of us who work on GCC have to put up with
> arbitrary emails from random crazies on the internet without even the
> simple recourse of being able to put individuals on moderation. That
> might have worked 20 years ago when I thought ESR was relevant, but
> seems absurdly out-of-date to me today.
>
> As usual, these are my opinions only, not necessarily those of my
> employer
The deranged raving is the disclaimer every time an employee posts
something.
> Dave
>
>
>
