Re: [OT] Off-topic posts

2008-08-21 Thread phobos
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:12:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.6K bytes in 
22 lines about:
: Tor-related are marked with [OT] in the subject. I think this is the  
: least we can do for those who are just interested in the Tor stuff, so  
: they can filter/skip those mails.

I vote for just kicking people off the list.  While this may feed into
their fascism/censorship fantasies, dropping the signal to noise ratio
doesn't help anyone search the archives nor get their questions
answered.

Kicked people are welcome to rejoin so long as they can keep their
posts relevant to technical details of tor, onion routing
research, and subsequent discussions.  

There are plenty of places, that are not here, to discuss the global
cabal, licensing facts and opinions, mail user agent etiquette, and
future alien overlords from the Crab Nebula.  If you can't find these
places, start with usenet.  

My $0.02; not that of the Tor Project.

-- 
Andrew


Re: [OT] Off-topic posts

2008-08-21 Thread Kyle Williams
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:12:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.6K
 bytes in 22 lines about:
 : Tor-related are marked with [OT] in the subject. I think this is the
 : least we can do for those who are just interested in the Tor stuff, so
 : they can filter/skip those mails.

 I vote for just kicking people off the list.  While this may feed into
 their fascism/censorship fantasies, dropping the signal to noise ratio
 doesn't help anyone search the archives nor get their questions
 answered.

 Kicked people are welcome to rejoin so long as they can keep their
 posts relevant to technical details of tor, onion routing
 research, and subsequent discussions.

 There are plenty of places, that are not here, to discuss the global
 cabal, licensing facts and opinions, mail user agent etiquette, and
 future alien overlords from the Crab Nebula.  If you can't find these
 places, start with usenet.

 My $0.02; not that of the Tor Project.

 --
 Andrew



I agree.  The noise on this mailing list is making my eyes bleed when I want
to know what is going on with Tor.
To be honest, I haven't read much of the mailing list since for the last
couple weeks because of all the noise.
We I open an e-mail from the Tor mailing list, I expect it to be about Tor
or Tor related technologies, not 9/11 conspiracies.

I say ask them politely to stop, if not, kick'em off.

- Kyle