MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The idea to ignore trolls is hardly new, or unusual. Nor is it a > > "policy", in the sense that anyone is ordered to ignore them under > > pain of expulsion. [...] > > Not in that sense, but that sense doesn't follow directly from > the word "policy". I'd expect someone consistently ignoring it > to be corrected, but ICBW.
It's not policy regardless. It's a recommendation about what will make the list more useful and pleasant. > > If you think this is *wrong*, then why? Because you have a right to > > be responded to no matter what you say, even when you are hostile to > > the purposes the list was created for? > > I'm not hostile to balancing debian's composition. I'm hostile > to discrimination, but I was told that wasn't a list purpose: > are you saying it is? Why do you know better than others? The list discriminates on the basis of *topic*, but not on the basis of the gender of the *contributor*. Get it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]