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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Luis Ressel <aranea@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 11 May 2017 02:17:59 -0500 |
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> Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I ask the council to establish a procedure / team to moderate the |
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>> gentoo-project@ and gentoo-dev@ mailing lists: |
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> I really don't see the point of this. Yes, there are a few messages on |
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> our mailing lists that some of us don't want to see. But as long as |
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> we're not drowning in in a tsunami of spam that practically DOSes our |
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> infrastructure, I think we're better of letting the *readers* take care |
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> of filtering. |
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The obvious counterargument is that they'll take care of the filtering |
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by simply unsubscribing. We don't want people to avoid us. If |
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somebody looks at our list archives and see lots of flames, they may |
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be discouraged from participating. If somebody posts a bug and |
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somebody replies saying that xyz on Gentoo is dead and that you'd be |
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better off on another distro, they'll probably take that advice |
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ensuring xyz remains dead. Etc. |
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It is a bit of "we will not hide problems" vs "not hiding problems |
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actually causes those problems." Suicide by social contract? |
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Rich |
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