[Tfug] List confusion

[erich]

OK,
      I was quietly doing my own form of censorship, and deleting his 
posts on the webmail
interface before downloading messages into my server. Thanks. I am now 
spared of that
chore.

                                                                                                                         
Erich

Jon wrote:
> Eric Christian's posts are being moderated. I've seen too many people 
> unsubscribe over the past weeks. Some voiced it to the list, others 
> privately to me and some just silently left. Before we go in to how 
> those people need to use Gmail and mute people, learn how to ignore or 
> just get a thicker skin I want to back track and talk a bit about the 
> history of the list and what it used to be used for.
>
> Tyler and other people long ago founded the Tucson Free Unix Group as 
> a place for people to talk openly about Free Unix (which branched in 
> to Linux), find solutions to problems, general networking with other 
> people in the local community and possibly beyond and anything else 
> technology related. I came on board several years after it's inception 
> and was loosely affiliated by mere association with one or more of the 
> founding members. I've seen it go through many changes. The main 
> change and the one I think most would agree is the focus of topics 
> from technology related to just an open forum where anything goes and 
> staying farther away from its roots.
>
> Only recently have things gotten worse and the catalyst in many 
> people's eyes was Eric and the people that can't help but promote the 
> thread by responding and fueling his desire to "inform" people of all 
> the bad things he's found on the Internet.
>
> This is the sole reason he has been moderated. I'm trying my best to 
> be nice about it all but at the end of the day he's just a troll and 
> he has succeeded in doing what trolls do - posting to the list with 
> one agenda, to annoy people. I've moderated his posts and will review 
> each one. If it's clear it's on topic I'll let him send to the list. 
> If not it'll get rejected.
>
> I want this list to be as constructive as possible and I do realize 
> that from time-to-time people are going to stray OT. That doesn't mean 
> I'm going to come down on them for doing so. Eric was a repeat 
> offender and it was clear he was only posting garbage and I for one 
> was tired of seeing it as I know other people were too.
>
> I know some people will not like the decision to do this. For them I 
> apologize and would like to loosely quote someone on the list - 'Maybe 
> you should change your expectations'   ;)
>
>