[PLUG] To moderate or to unmoderate

2013-01-25 Thread Koustubh Sinkar
> > Dear Pluggies, > > We are all aware of the mailing list issues and various threads about the > same. > > After going through them and considering list-members reactions, there > were lot of discussions off-list with moderators and many others about > the issues. Finally, the time has come to ch

Re: [PLUG] Proposal for change from the current state of the list.

2013-01-25 Thread Navin Kabra
Sudhanwa Jogalekar writes: > Any new member joining the list will not get a moderation > flag set. -1. This does not make sense. New users should have moderation flag set until the first post gets approved or 1st month or something like that. Otherwise this list will get buried in spam.

Re: [PLUG] Proposal for change from the current state of the list.

2013-01-25 Thread Navin Kabra
Sudhanwa Jogalekar writes: > Any new member joining the list will not get a moderation > flag set. -1. This does not make sense. New users should have moderation flag set until the first post gets approved or 1st month or something like that. Otherwise this list will get buried in spam. > 2.

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues - Quick vote

2013-01-25 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/5 Thin Rhino : > The issue is been dragged on for ages and I also see a lot of confusion on > what is expected. A quick vote should help. > > A: Open up the list completely, no moderation > B: Remove restrictive moderation, keep basic moderation in place > C: Let it be as it is, no change >

Re: [PLUG] Creator of RSS passes away

2013-01-25 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/21 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay : > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Praveen A wrote: >> Was Martin Luther King breaking the law when he broke >> segregation law? > > There's a bit of tautology in the above statement. I wanted to say, when he boarded the bus, but then I was not sure of the exac

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues - Quick vote

2013-01-25 Thread Praveen A
2013/1/9 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay : > I have been reading this thread for a while. And, not just this > iteration. There are a couple of things which leave me a bit upset. > One, the original email from Sudhanwa left more issues un-addressed > than it did by way of explanation. The exposition was mo

Re: [PLUG] [kernel talk] [003/006] Building our USB Driver Key

2013-01-25 Thread Muneeb Shaikh
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Sunil Beta Baskar wrote: > Hi Everyone on this list, > > We will be using a USB Storage device (preferably) and altering a > driver to add an addition "sysctl" layer to it to enable USB storage > device classes and an optional clear-text secure password to allow t

Re: [PLUG] To moderate or to unmoderate

2013-01-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Koustubh Sinkar wrote: snip entire content of Sudhanwa's OP - > I am against removing the moderation completely. I think the moderation > flag should be for newcomers or for the first 5 or 10 posts by any > newcomer. Once someone has posted 5 to 10 pos