Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 19:53:02
Message-Id: 20170523195252.GN1642@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list by "Michał Górny"
1 170523 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Sadly, it is not uncommon for threads on that mailing list to turn into
3 > trollfests, get deranged or hijacked into completely different topics.
4 > Things are so bad that the mailing list stops serving its purpose. It
5 > involves a number of consequences:
6
7 As a user, I've been subscribed to this list since 2003
8 & can't remember any recent occasion -- and very few not recent --
9 when any such bad or damaging behaviour has happened.
10
11 Is this proposal itself not just a waste of valuable developer time
12 in moderating, censoring & deciding who is a sheep & who is a goat ?
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