[Asterisk-Dev] RFC: Moderating the Asterisk Mailing Lists

[Steve Clark]

Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:40 +0100, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 13:11 -0500, Gregory Junker wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Follow Mark's model: if you are not interested in answering someone's 
>>>question in a courteous manner, then simply don't. "DTFG" and "RTFM" and 
>>>non-directed pointers to arbitrary Wiki pages (or even worse, to the 
>>>Wiki home page), and especially, "read the f***ing source code", do not 
>>>fall under "courteous reply".
>>
>>Greg
>>
>>as an asterisk newbie, I'd like to support your view, especially your
>>remark about either answering politely or not at all. Nobody is
>>required to answer 'noise' mails if he/she doesn't like to. Actually,
>>if nobody does I'm pretty sure the noise level will eventually drop.
> 
> 
> Incorrect, non responses breed more noise as too many newbies turn right
> around and repost due to a perceived failure. Plus you haven't laid down
> any acceptable ground rules as to what is tolerated. So you slide down
> the slope into ever increasing noise.
> 
> 
And you know this how?

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Steve
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