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

[Felipe Contreras]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.

That's authoritarian.

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Felipe Contreras