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Grant Sewell wrote:
Hi all,Sorry for the HTML post - sending this from my phone which doesn't seem to have an option to send in plain-text.Does anyone else feel it even slightly inappropriate for what comes across as personal attacks to be posted to a public, archived mailing list? How must it look for potential LUGgers? Surely we should be actively trying to promote ourselves as a friendly local source of information, help and discussion?If you need to publically point out inaccuracies, errors or IYO bad judgement of another poster, please do so politely and respectfully.Grant -- Sent from my Palm PrÄ
Hi Grant,I categorically agree, although I would say 'completely' not 'slightly'. It is unfortunate that the thread in question is by far the longest currently open, which means it is likely to attract more hits from a search engine compounding the problem.
I am an admin on an IRC channel and if anyone starts up a personal attack in the channel they get kicked - banned if they persist. Sometimes I feel it is a pity there is no such censure ability on a mailing list - other than the admin removing the offender from distribution that is. Certainly in a mailing list posting personal information is one way for the subject of the attack to become known to spammers, and as you said it is publicly archived so the damage cannot easily be undone. I believe the latter is the reason that swearing in the mailing list is heavily frowned on also.
Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html