From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B217139694 for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 19:53:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A381E0D20; Tue, 23 May 2017 19:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D267E0C56 for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 19:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68432EA118 for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 15:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DF7SqNsvw5xl for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 15:52:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-45-78-233-107.dyn.295.ca [45.78.233.107]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D6E062EA205 for ; Tue, 23 May 2017 15:52:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 23 May 2017 15:52:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:52:52 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list Message-ID: <20170523195252.GN1642@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1495567878.1556.4.camel@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1495567878.1556.4.camel@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) X-Archives-Salt: f0340834-635c-4d0e-aaa0-bc125a7abe5f X-Archives-Hash: 0321480e7ec3c474c4e5a05ef4389527 170523 Michał Górny wrote: > Sadly, it is not uncommon for threads on that mailing list to turn into > trollfests, get deranged or hijacked into completely different topics. > Things are so bad that the mailing list stops serving its purpose. It > involves a number of consequences: As a user, I've been subscribed to this list since 2003 & can't remember any recent occasion -- and very few not recent -- when any such bad or damaging behaviour has happened. Is this proposal itself not just a waste of valuable developer time in moderating, censoring & deciding who is a sheep & who is a goat ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca