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Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate.

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 09:09:20AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
>"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> writes:
>
>...
>> * It shouldn't need twenty people to make a point or start arguments and
>>   counter arguments. If someone has already written what you would have wanted
>>   to write, that's fine: in many cases you can safely leave it there.
>>   The list is moderated: the volunteers moderating the list and everyone
>>   reading the list will appreciate you for not providing more to read through.
>
>I'm a little concerned that this mention of moderation could give the
>impression that we're filtering messages based on tone or content.
>
>Unless I've misunderstood completely, we do not judge the content of the
>messages, except that we filter out very obviously abusive trolling that
>the list was suffering prior to moderation, and obviously drop
>SPAM/Phishing/etc. if we see it.

Agreed, that's exactly the policy. It just takes more time to check
more messages, and I think that's all that Andy was suggesting.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

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A quiet reminder: please be considerate. "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-03-25 01:10 +0100
  Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2022-03-25 09:20 +0100
    Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2022-03-25 13:00 +0100
      How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? (Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate.) Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 00:30 +0100
        Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? (Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate.) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-26 08:10 +0100
        Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? "Nicolas Dandrimont" <olasd@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 15:10 +0100
          Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 16:00 +0100
            Re: How about using moderation as a delay system for bad threads? "Nicolas Dandrimont" <olasd@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 17:10 +0100
    Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Brian Thompson <brt9023@gmail.com> - 2022-03-26 16:10 +0100
      Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-03-26 18:00 +0100
        Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate. Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2022-03-26 18:40 +0100

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