[arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 16.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Am 16.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies <fredbezies at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm an old archlinux user (first installation back in december 2008),
>>>> and for a long time, I was very satisfied with arch-general. But some
>>>> people - can we define them as bottom holes ? - are rotting this
>>>> mailing list, and the community too.
>>>
>>> Do what the Linux kernel does: ignore the mails. Most mail clients
>>> have an option to mute a thread.
>>
>> I prefer the more pragmatic approach: Simply ban some people from the
>> list to make it quiet again.
> 
> That's not more pragmatic,

It is. Person X is annoying everyone, so person X can't post any longer.

> that's more authoritarian, but whatever
> floats your boat; if you want to squash dissidence, that's certainly
> the way.

I want to squash the noise that has turned this list from a helpful and
nice place to discuss with developers and users into the place it has
been the last few days.


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