<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">How is this discussion related to Linux/OSS?<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Why does it not get discussed elsewhere? <br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On 15 Feb 2019, at 12:34, Mayuresh <<a href="mailto:mayuresh@acm.org" target="_blank">mayuresh@acm.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue">On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 12:18:23PM +0530, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sudhanwa, Gaurav and/or other "admins" :<br> <br> Why do we allow/tolerate "certain individuals" to post "rants" unrelated to<br> linux/OSS ?<br> <br> I tried to ignore such emails for a long time, but then more "obscure"<br> emails started coming in (and more frequently)<br> <br> I refuse to reply to such individuals because most likely I will get a<br> response, which won't make sense (at all), Also I remembered a saying that<br> "If you wrestle a pig, you'll get dirty and pig will enjoy (and pig will<br> win due to practice)"<br></blockquote><br>I share the sentiment. I am also a long term member of this list (for<br>18/19 years). The quality of posts of late has been poor.<br><br>I once wrote individually to some of the people you have addressed above.<br><br>Since there appears to be no institutional mechanism (or any discussion<br>thereon) to shun the nuisance I just did the best I could individually: If<br>I notice habitual obscure/non sense senders, I block them in my mailbox.<br>(To be precise, I use procmail to redirect such senders' "stuff" to<br>/dev/null).<br><br>Moderation could be one solution (though I know it was once done away with<br>after such demand). I do not know what other best practices exist for<br>this.<br><br>Mayuresh<br><hr><br>plug-mail mailing list<br>plug-mail@plug.org.in<br><a href="http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail">http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>