Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:24:28 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: koobs@FreeBSD.org Cc: mexas@bris.ac.uk, code@apotheon.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kubilay Kocak <koobs.freebsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm unsubscribing Message-ID: <52B4531C.2000809@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <52B44FA1.6050001@FreeBSD.org> References: <201312201132.rBKBWEQT089240@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <52B44361.500@FreeBSD.org> <52B44926.6000005@marino.st> <52B44FA1.6050001@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12/20/2013 15:09, Kubilay Kocak wrote: > I appreciate the distinction, and I agree with your premises. Setting a > high standard is not in question. Thanks. > If your aim however, is to change or influence others, and you'll grant > that not everyone can know all there is to know about the values and > behaviours we espouse in advance, then a reply guiding (read: leading) > those individuals in the right direction would likely prove more > effective than what was perhaps just a symptom of frustration. At the beginning of the thread, I used the gcc developer list as an actual example. If anyone posst an inappropriate topic to the list, it may get answered, but it will always get a "this is not appropriate for this list, please don't do it again, use the XXXX list for this next time." I can imagine it's a slight put-off for brand new users but it is effective. People make a mistake once, and after that they do the right thing. Since they are publicly corrected, you can imagine they educate dozens of people *before* they can make the same mistake. So I'm talking about policing the list consistently. > If you don't feel up to taking on that role, then maybe unsubscribing is > the way to go, though I hope its not as you have a lot of value to add. I had to try, but I suspected this thread would go the way of NetBSD (Much discussion, zero net effect) and so far it has. I expect this topic to die down soon and I'll unsubscribe around new years eve, since two weeks seems to be the ports grace period. :) John
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