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Re: [LUG] Personal vs Public List Messages

 

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
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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

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