On 06/05/2007 10:36 PM, Chas Owens wrote:
On 6/5/07, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A horrible thing has happened recently.
Messages from usenet seem to be appearing here.
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Some of the junk that
goes on on usenet doesn't need to happen here.
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The method of connecting to the list shouldn't matter. We have
standards of conduct and those who do not wish to follow them will be
asked not to post anymore. Let's not go looking for trouble that
doesn't exist yet.
The problem is the certain people have developed certain demeanors on
the Perl usenet newsgroups. Now whenever these people post to the Perl
newsgroup perl.beginners, their posts will be reflected here on
beginners[at]perl.org.
These people will never change, and I killfiled them a long time ago,
but they will still change the character of this mailing list, and that
I don't want.
There are two problems with asking them to leave:
1) They won't leave.
2) Where do they go? They've been posting to the perl.beginners
newsgroup for ages, and when they post to that newsgroup, they should
have no expectation that they messages will be reflected to our mailing
list.
The problem is a gross misconfiguration somewhere that needs to be fixed
ASAP. I hope that Google is not involved. Google has been doing to
pretty weird things lately with mailing lists and moderators[at]isc.org
(which presumably facilitates posting to moderated newsgroups).
I understand that Google has a big presence on usenet, but I hope that
they haven't used that power to arbitrarily affect a major change to the
structures of usenet and the mailing lists.
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