Moderate some users (was: Re: [MPlayer-users] Re: divx 6)

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 5/3/06, Alexander Noe' <alexander.noe at s2001.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> RC schrieb:
>
> > On Wed, 3 May 2006 07:57:29 +0200
> > "Guillaume POIRIER" <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Now people, please vote!
> >
> >
> > I'll vote no.

Ok, it's you choice.


> >  I don't think politeness should be mandatory,
> > either.

I do not agree here. I do think that politeness is the least we can
expect from a public mailing list.
I'm quite confident that this is one of the rules of usenet....

(given that we already expect ppl to conform to "technical" points of
usenet such as plain text mails, bottom posting, creating a mail
without replying to unrelated theads, I don't think asking ppl to be
polite is a bad thing)


> Fucking ignorant dicks. Why don't you go read the fucking archives
> rather than spamming our list with your snide stupidity?
> ...
> It DOES NOT IMPROVE QUALITY. Get it through your pea-sized brain!
> <<<
>
> When voting, take into consideration that Rich did not react to a
> personally attack when making this reply, which would still be bad
> enough, but that this is his normal behaviour without being attacked
> before.
>
> At least this kind of messages should be censored.

Yep, that's the idea.

Since there's no button "go wash your mouth with soap" on mailman
interface, the only thing that I see that aproaches it is to moderate
the posts of some authors.

Guillaume
--
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject
is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to
make him really know what he's talking about.

-- H. P. Lovecraft (about the flamewars on FFmpeg and MPlayer-dev mailing lists)
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/hplovecr278144.html