I'm a political activist with years of experience of dealing with related situations, especially in the internet, and I endorse the idea that the single thing you can do is to ignore these things.
A really sad thing indeed, and irritating, but in the end it boils down to "just ignore". The technical nature of a mailing list does not allow "banning", in some cases, not even "moderation". Even if messages are erased from groups.google.com, everyone has a copy already. In a controlled environment where you could determine whether people are able to read some messages, that would be possible. But given the circumstances, that's not an option. That said, there is another problem. When you censor people that has a strong opinion (not saying it's right or wrong), they get upset and usually start promoting even more of the same agenda. So when you say someone is wrong and should shut up, what you are really doing is telling them that they should continue making their point again and again and in so many ways until it's spammed everywhere and there's no way that anyone doesn't see it. In this given context, whenever you fight back anything you don't agree with, the subject will almost always presume that "you didn't get it" and will flame you with all kinds of different ways of saying the very same thing, until you admit he's right. My experience shows that there are other ways of achieving victory in a ideological fight than to elect a operational system mailing list as a stage, but don't get my word, I recommend anyone to try and see for itself ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/146190c9-8dc1-47f6-9168-070f98dc841b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
