Michele and all, I am sorry to read your response as name calling is a demonstration of ill breading, bad manners, and in no way makes of a good argument of any sort. Michele Neylon wrote:
John Levine wrote:
There's a lot of experience on a lot of other lists to support this position. If there is a complex process to deal with disruptive people, you can expect its targets to compound and prolong the disruption and by arguing and niggling about every detail.
And I would say with a certain degree of confidence that it is definitely a case of not feeding the trolls :)
We're all big boys and girls here, it's not hard to act like one, and there is no reason at all to waste yet more time with people who don't.
Exactly my thoughts
I'm on a lot of mailing lists for different topics and with very different demographics. Most are self-moderating to a point, but when push comes to shove dropping someone from a list when they've only been disruptive won't come as a surprise to them.
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