-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Warren Togami wrote: <<-- snip -->> > > While I personally agree that all of the discussion about Microsoft, > foreign fonts, and other flame wars here is very off topic and > detrimental to the list, we are hesitant to impose censorship on a > discussion list. It is a huge waste of time to management and a > slippery slope. How do we fairly draw a line? Everything is not > clearly black or white. This is true. It is difficult to draw the line when sometimes someone asks a question (all be it improper) ends up being a good question after all. Example: Mike McCarty.... I mean who hasn't trashed their partitions at some time wondering How can I get all the information back. He posted the message as Very OT ... and it was a Debian problem .. but the problem itself applies to all platforms, including Windows. > > That being said, I do request that list members please refrain from > discussing things not strictly about Fedora on this list. There are > better places elsewhere to discuss Microsoft conspiracies, useless GPL > speculation, or insular American attitudes toward foreign languages. > > Also, please also refrain from endlessly complaining about > aforementioned behavior. If you ignore trolls, they eventually give up > and go away. Feeding trolls only makes them stronger, and you become > one of them. THANK YOU! Very well said. Fanning the flames of a really bad topic only makes it worse, adds nothing to the discussion and is often worse than the original post. Sometimes to the point of being vulgar. > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ > If you want to give up on this list, I usually recommend folks to head > over to Fedora Forum because user lists don't scale even under best > conditions. A web forum is better able to organize topics, flame wars > are much better controlled, while off-topic drivel is easily moved to > where it belongs. > > Warren Togami > wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx > Thanks, James Kosin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD9gNjkNLDmnu1kSkRAjpoAJ9rwLRg/l4kGEGm+0A71a6pvGHcdACdHxCD e8TopwU/mWerJt+DcKWrZbE= =sTj8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net
