Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-30 Thread Tom Spear
On 3/29/06, Chris Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you propose we prevent people from emailing people that post towine-devel?How do we choose who gets to email people directly andwho doesn't?How do we filter the contents of their email?Segin doesn't speak for the entire community and he

OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Dr J A Gow
I was interested to read several comments on this list in respect of such comments as 'IQ of zero'. Such comments were the final straw in leading me to take this action. A few days ago I sent a comment to the list. Nothing really sinister, just an observation and an experience. Before long I

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Jason Green
On 3/29/06, Dr J A Gow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was interested to read several comments on this list in respect of such comments as 'IQ of zero'. Such comments were the final straw in leading me to take this action. Thank you. It sometimes takes a thick skin to ignore the petty and childish

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Tom Spear
Totally agreed. Segin needs to be not just kick/banned from the list, he needs to be K-Lined, if not G-Lined from all things wine! With respect to his comments though, on behalf of everyone involved with the project, and with the community as a whole, I sincerely apologize. TomOn 3/29/06, Jason

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Morgan
I'm pretty sure people are capable of filtering their own email. Afaict the offending emails were between two individuals. You may not like them but that has no bearing on whether they should be allowed to post to the mailing list given that those emails to the mailing list are appropriate.

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Tom Spear
On 3/29/06, Chris Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure people are capable of filtering their own email.Afaict the offending emails were between two individuals.You may notlike them but that has no bearing on whether they should be allowed topost to the mailing list given that those

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Morgan
I'm pretty sure people are capable of filtering their own email. Afaict the offending emails were between two individuals. You may not like them but that has no bearing on whether they should be allowed to post to the mailing list given that those emails to the mailing list are

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Hiji
How do you propose we prevent people from emailing people that post to wine-devel? How do we choose who gets to email people directly and who doesn't? How do we filter the contents of their email? I want to chime in and say that I'm with Tom and the ole Doc here. I don't think there's any

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Mike McCormack
Hiji wrote: I know I was the first to respond to Sergin's email by asking that he be more constructive in his feedback, but past that, none of the regulars on this thread said much. Now, his thread has spawned into something that is s far out there that it almost has no relevancy to

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Morgan
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 7:31 pm, Hiji wrote: How do you propose we prevent people from emailing people that post to wine-devel? How do we choose who gets to email people directly and who doesn't? How do we filter the contents of their email? I want to chime in and say that I'm with

Re: OT: General behaviour of the community (from 'Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all')

2006-03-29 Thread Hiji
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 7:31 pm, Hiji wrote: How do you propose we prevent people from emailing people that post to wine-devel? How do we choose who gets to email people directly and who doesn't? How do we filter the contents of their email? I want to chime in and say that I'm with