If you can't get enough support to filter or block offenders, then just ignore them. I've been a lurker on this list, occasionally chiming in when I found it helpful, for over 3 years now -- As such, I've read your concern a few times, but I consider the reactions to his posts to be a much bigger issue than his posts, as off topic as they are. I wouldn't have said anything otherwise, but I'm just sick of reading the back and forth each time it happens. Solution: Filter and block offenders, or just ignore them. You said it yourself -- "this never ends" -- so, clearly what the list has tried so far isn't working. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:19 PM Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > With all due respect to you and the sanity of the list: > > This never ends. Ever. Once a quarter (now, it used to be daily or weekly) > he’d make a post like that. > We want, nay we need, it to end. > > > > > On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Andrew Dahl <droidjd at gmail.com> wrote: > > Ask yourself one question before hitting send: "Does this add anything to > the discussion?" -- No? Don't hit send. If someone else fails to do so, > just ignore them or be polite about it. > > Problem solved without spamming everyone on the list and without wasting > everyone's time reading such drivel. Every time someone says something off > topic (in this instance, Brian), there's someone that doesn't know how to > just ignore it or be polite about it (in this instance, Ryan and Clug). > Just keep this trite BS off the list. When you get so off topic or, even > worse, make it personal, you're doing way more harm than good to this > community. If you really want to start a pissing contest and hurt feelings, > reply privately and keep everyone else out of it. > > Seriously sick of reading these whiny personal attacks. > -Andrew > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:54 PM Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Ryan Coleman wrote: >> >> >> Oh for goodness sake. >> > This is Brian Wood, after all. >> > He’d be afraid of coming into my home because I don’t believe in things >> he believes in. >> >> I don't like taking chances, so just in case I am hereby declaring my >> house a gun-free zone. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150623/d0e12dbb/attachment.html>