On Monday 30 January 2006 16:38, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:01:42 -0500 > > Bryan Phinney got an infinite number of monkeys to type out: > > No, because it is OFF-TOPIC. If you insist on posting off-topic messages > > to the list, especially off-topic messages designed to elicit flame wars, > > you are going into the kill-file along with all the other Trolls. I > > daresay that I won't be the only one. > > 1. I didn't post the link.
One of the measures of the level of maturity of a person is resisting making things worse by feeding a troll. Your follow-up is direct to the list and is absolutely nothing more than flame bait. And this is not the first time that someone has asked you to take your political bunk off the list. You should know better. So, again, take it somewhere else. > 2. I don't recall anyone getting their panties in a bunch when Kaj posted > stuff about the EU and patents, Patents do have an effect on free software so an argument could be made that it bears some relationship to the topic of the List. Because of the effect on free software, I have some interest in following the discussions and fights overs software patents in Europe. For the record, I have no interest, either pro or con in discussing US politics with any person on this list. If I wanted to have such discussions, there are a plethora of Usenet groups, mailing lists, blogs, forums, take your pick to engage in those discussions. By posting those items, you are adding to the noise value and devaluing a list that, IIRC, you were just complaining about the other day. So, make up your mind, either this is a valuable resource for discussing Linux and perhaps open source software in general, or it isn't. If it is valuable, don't pollute the noise ratio with political commentary. If it isn't, don't let the door hit your butt on the way out. > nor have you or anyone else made a peep > regarding Dan's pollution of this list of late (talk about > trolls There is a very good possibility that I have already kill-filed those responsible for those particular outbursts. I didn't regard them as being started by you and therefore you avoided the kill-file for that particular incident. Perhaps I have made an error in judgment when I did NOT include you in that group? My kill-file has had some new additions recently, there are at least 5 in there now. At least one of those is in there simply because of political sigs that the poster in question decided was more important than promoting mutual harmony and cooperation on the mailing list. That should serve as some indication about how much patience I will have for continuing political commentary. > ...actually going through the effort to set up fake e-mail accounts > and write long-winded slanderous diatribes) with his seemingly neverending > vendetta. You aren't seriously suggesting that because someone else is immature and pollutes the list, you should be allowed to do so as well? Well, then if someone else gets kill-filed by the majority of people on the list, are you volunteering to be thrown in with the bunch of them? Because the tact you are taking is leading you inexorably down that path. > If you want peace, then treat people equally. Otherwise, you can expect a > lot more of this. I'm not putting up with this shit anymore. The next message I see from you with an ounce of political flame-bait in it and I won't have any problems any longer, because I won't be seeing your messages. I am trying to be polite here and give you the benefit of the doubt that you have not sunk to the level of a complete troll. I have posted things that I regretted before myself. Recently, I have tried very hard to keep my postings related to Open Source and Gnu/Linux. Again, I have no interest in political discussions. There are ample opportunities to have those with people who wish to engage in such discussions. Well, not so much discussions as screaming matches because there is no such thing as a political discussion any more. All the more reason that I don't want to see those posts on this list. I am asking you to correct your behavior and cease posting political commentary to this list as it only creates flamewars that I have no interest in taking part in. This is not the first time that request has been made of you. I won't be making any further requests, polite or otherwise. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
