From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Mark Galassi <rosalia@galassi.org>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: blocking impolite posters from docbook-tools-discuss
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007062002210.90593-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
Message-ID: <20000706111100.Qhd_9pV7ONbNrfrnHZlepIgDrsSXIQ1RPa-9l2Qr4h4@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76g0pn9n0x.fsf@odie.lanl.gov>
On 6 Jul 2000, Mark Galassi wrote:
> Amigos, I'm sure you will not be surprised that Eric S. Raymond has
> been posting offensive message to
> docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
>
> I would like to block his posts without making a fuss.
I just read that on the web archive. His messages were a stronger than
necessary, but I'm not sure whether it's really a good idea to block
someone for one or two postings that were a bit harsh. And you definitely
cannot do so without making any fuss -- he can easily post from any other
address.
FWIW, having installed/failed to install Docbook tools on FreeBSD/Solaris
earlier this year, I have to admit that his rants are not completely
unfounded (content-wise).
From my experience, I'd drop him a note privately, politely asking him
to tone down a bit. And address some of the real issues ``hidden'' in
his rants.
Gerald
--
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
Have a look at http://petition.eurolinux.org -- it's not about Linux, btw!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-06 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-30 6:08 Mark Galassi
2000-07-06 10:38 ` Mark Galassi
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Per Bothner
2000-07-06 11:02 ` Per Bothner
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Mark Galassi
2000-07-06 11:07 ` Mark Galassi
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Jim Kingdon
2000-07-06 11:11 ` Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2000-07-06 11:11 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Stan Shebs
2000-07-07 9:54 ` Stan Shebs
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Bob Manson
2000-07-07 13:20 ` Bob Manson
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-07-06 10:55 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Mark Galassi
2000-07-06 10:58 ` Mark Galassi
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