OT: [maybe] What does one want to happen? (was: Re: right on the edge...)

[Mike Schwartz]

> Put down some rules for once? Keep it Linux/Unix and OSS oriented?

I agree that we might have to start some (very informal, UN-official) rules.

> Keep it Linux/Unix and OSS oriented?

That is VERY open to interpretation.
HENCE I think, maybe we should draw the line at, [saying that:]
*once* a given thread,
(such as today's post-election steam-venting thread)
has substantially MORE plug members
requesting the "off-topic" folks to "please" STFU,
than the number of ["off-topic"] posters who do still want to continue,
(counted by number of individuals,
    where one person posting N >> 1 times,
    no matter how many times they posted,
    still only counts as one "vote")
*then*
the "verdict" should be, that the
    "posters who want to continue",
need to take it off-line -- either create a new forum on
yahoogroups.com for themselves (it can be done free)
(I have done it before),
or else move to some other mailing list,
(at least for that particular thread)
or just e-mail each other, off-list,
or actually quiet down --
that is,
** don't post **
(/slash, move on to some other topic).

I understand that "my" advice also might
not be, what everyone agrees with 100%.
So, this has been, my 0.02,
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Tony E - Jaraeth
<jaraeth at phoenixwing.com> wrote:
>
> Put down some rules for once? Keep it Linux/Unix and OSS oriented?  it's
> the "Phoenix *LINUX* Users Group" after all.  I'm all for free speech,
> but every organization has rules under its belt to promote and benefit
> that groups goals.  Political agenda has no place here unless it is
> related to Linux/Unix and OSS in my opinion.
>
> One more inch toward unsubscribing from this crap...
>
>  Tony E
>  "Raptus regaliter"
>  jaraeth at phoenixwing.com
>  http://www.phoenixwing.com/
>
>
>
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> >
> >   what do you want to happen?  -jmz
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Tuna <tuna at supertunaman.com
> > <mailto:tuna at supertunaman.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I am seriously tempted not to participate in any PLUG mailing lists if
> >     something isn't done about all this.
> >
> >     > I am right on the edge here, there's only so much you can hold back
> >     > when rhetoric is hitting your last nerve and it's unethical to
> >     respond
> >     > because it goes against the the very social order your attempting to
> >     > preserve. (this group that is)
> >     >
> >     > Does it really require filters and unsubscribing to not hear this,
> >     > even after requested by a nominal number of people have
> >     requested such
> >     > including myself and still seeing snipes?
> >     >
> >     > Thanks,
> >     > Dan Lund
> >     > [...]
> >     > --Socrates
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