Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 20:35 +0100, Doofus wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 18:34:34 +0100, Doofus wrote:

Florian Kulzer wrote:

[...]

[snip]
Every message that was thenceforth posted to this particular thread was
artificially delayed for one day before it was redistributed via the
list. That made any sort of on-list discussion very awkward. It was
"don't continue with this topic" implemented as a policy against all
list subscribers, and it was a very effective measure. (The thread
stopped after four more messages.)



I've never heard of this being done anywhere before. I can't see why
Anand didn't just ignore the thread.

Exactly. Skip over the thread. Delete them from your email, Mark
As Read, whatever. It's not that hard.

Effectively it was as stated above: "I'm going to kill this discussion
because I personally dislike it".

Censorship. Disgusting in almost any scenario, I think. So much more so
on a list associated with such an obsessively politically correct linux
distribution, who's list administrators perpetually bleat about the need
for "openness" and free one-sided access to all and sundry. Ergo, we're

Small men with power is a dangerous thing, no matter what side of
the aisle you're on.

in a situation where any worthless spamming toe-rag in the world can
hammer the debian list servers with anything he wants, but someone in
here for all the right reasons has his (unfortunately expletive) views
squashed because one of the listmasters takes umbrage with some of his
opinions. Not very good really, is it?

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